Inside: • Analysis: The Victory Day spectacle and beyond – page 3. • Investors sue producers of Holodomor film – page 4. • Commentary: The Obama reset and Ukraine – page 6.

ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal Wnon-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXIX No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 $1/$2 in Ukraine Translation of U.S. scholar’s book Hunger-striking Lutsenko aims to fight historical revisionism reported to be seriously ill

by Zenon Zawada and his entourage to eliminate the Kyiv Press Bureau Ukrainian peasant class – which was not only opposed to collectivization but was KYIV – Historical phenomena such also the core of Ukrainian national iden- as the Holodomor – the Famine- tity – as the biggest threat to Soviet rule. Genocide of 1932-1933 in Ukraine – They say the Holodomor was part of a have come under increasing attack from tragedy endured by the people of the Stalin apologists creeping into the main- USSR equally, without any particular stream of Russian and Ukrainian societ- nation being singled out. They argue that ies. non-Ukrainians also died in the With Kremlin support, the debate has Holodomor. degenerated questions about what The Communist Party of Ukraine caused the Holodomor to whether it was goes so far as to allege that there was no genocide at all and whether it was artificially induced famine, but merely unique to Ukraine. harvest troubles in separate regions of For example, Russian historians have Ukraine. The Holodomor concept was increasingly argued that famines in the invented at Harvard University as anti- Lower Volga basin and Kazakhstan dur- Soviet propaganda, the party alleges in ing the same period also qualify as geno- its literature. cide, making the Holodomor not unique “I came to the conclusion, and I to Ukraine. proved that Stalin persecuted the To combat such historical revisionism, Ukrainian peasants in order to disallow Dr. Norman M. Naimark’s book “Stalin’s achieving independence, to deprive them Genocides” (Princeton University Press, of their nationality, and to deprive them 2010) has been translated into Ukrainian of creating opposition to Sovietization in UNIAN/Aleksandr Kosarev and published by the National University some way,” Dr. Naimark told a May 10 Yurii Lutsenko, former internal affairs minister of Ukraine, in an April 21 photo of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. press conference in Kyiv. taken in the Kyiv appellate court, which ruled that day to keep him behind bars. Dr. Naimark’s work arrives at a time “The combination of these social and Mr. Lutsenko declared a hunger strike the next day to protest his imprisonment. when neo-Soviet cultural policies are ethno-national dimensions was at the being pursued by the administration of core of Stalin’s destructive, ruinous by Volodymyr Musyak His wife, Iryna, who’s been allowed to Viktor Yanukovych and his minister of campaign,” said the Stanford University education, science, youth and sports, Special to The Ukrainian Weekly visit him only periodically, reported on scholar. May 19 that her husband has an inflamed Dmytro Tabachnyk. These policies reject Dr. Naimark’s book was translated by KYIV – The life of imprisoned former esophagus, 20 intestinal ulcers and deterio- notions of Russification and Soviet sub- Vasyl Starko in record time, said Dr. Internal Affairs Minister Yurii Lutsenko, rating blood vessels in the brain. Doctors jugation of the Ukrainian nation, and Serhiy Kvit, rector of the National cast the Soviet experience in a largely who has been on a hunger strike since had previously said starvation caused a University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. chronically inflamed pancreas and Type 2 positive light. In the book Dr. Naimark offers evi- April 22, is reportedly in danger as he Their political force, the Party of awaits a corruption trial that is widely diabetes. Prominent leaders called upon dence that Stalin’s genocides persisted Mr. Lutsenko to stop starving himself Regions of Ukraine, rejects the idea that during the period between the early viewed as part of the Ukrainian govern- the Holodomor was a genocide orches- ment’s political persecution of the oppo- before he does permanent harm to himself. trated by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin (Continued on page 4) sition. (Continued on page 22)

Chicago community commemorates Chornobyl anniversary by Anna Mostovych Vera Eliashevsky, chair of the Kyiv Core lessons of Chornobyl Committee of Chicago Sister Cities CHICAGO – Twenty five years after International, which spearheaded the For Dr. Shcherbak, former ambassador the Chornobyl catastrophe and two event, set the evening’s tone in her intro- of Ukraine to Israel, Canada and the months after the accident at the ductory remarks. “We honor those who United States, the two disasters were Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in perished and those who survived,” she global-scale events that affected the des- tinies of millions of people and demon- Japan, several organizations in Chicago said, requesting prayers for victims of strated that “any nuclear reactor of any joined forces to commemorate one disas- both the Chornobyl and Fukushima disas- type and any design in any country is …a ter and bring attention to the other. ters. The Rev. Myron Panchuk, co-chair delayed atom bomb that requires han- The multifaceted event – featuring a of the anniversary planning committee, dling with utmost responsibility.” keynote address by Dr. Yuri Shcherbak, then asked for a moment of silence for all In his keynote address, “Chornobyl: the presentation of awards to Chornobyl the victims. 25 Years After: Lessons for Mankind,” researchers, a photography exhibit and a Co-chair Dr. Daniel Hryhorchuk, direc- Dr. Shcherbak, who flew in from Kyiv documentary film – was held at the tor of global environmental health at UIC Chicago Cultural Center on Thursday especially for the commemoration, drew College of Medicine, extended “empathy on his experience as an eyewitness to the evening, April 28. and solidarity to the people of Japan” and Chornobyl disaster and as Ukraine’s first Walter Tun Some 350 people, representing read official greetings from various digni- minister of environmental protection, as Chicago’s diplomatic corps, the Dr. Yuri Shcherbak delivers the key- taries, including Chicago Mayor Richard well as on his expertise as a medical doc- note address at the Chicago commemo- Consulates of Japan and Ukraine, and M. Daley, Ambassador Oleksandr Motsyk tor and epidemiologist. ration of the 25th anniversary of the members of the Ukrainian American and of Ukraine and Dr. Boris Lushniak, depu- Chornobyl nuclear disaster. greater Chicago communities, attended. ty surgeon general of the United States. (Continued on page 8) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 No. 21 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS

Opposition remains fragmented Rada won’t condemn Putin’s remarks fies that we are a united people, the soli- darity of which nobody and nothing can KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada has destroy.” (Interfax –Ukraine) ahead of 2012 parliamentary election refused to condemn the statement by by Pavel Korduban evil on the national scale. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Investors sour on Ukraine diminishing the role of Ukraine in the vic- Eurasia Daily Monitor Opinion polls conducted this year and tory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941- LONDON – Reform has ground to a in 2010 show that Svoboda’s popularity halt in Ukraine, which is losing its invest- Clashes between far-right and pro- 1945, it was reported on May 18. The has been on the rise, but it is far from ment appeal, investors said during the sev- Russian activists married the Victory Day draft response of the Ukrainian Parliament supplanting the YTB as the most popular enth Adam Smith Conference summit in ceremonies in the western Ukrainian city to Mr. Putin, filed by the opposition fac- opposition party. It is currently only the London. The situation in Ukraine is disap- of Lviv on May 9. tion Our Ukraine–People’s Self-Defense, third most popular opposition force. pointing, said Timothy Ash, director for Militants from the far-right Svoboda received only 97 votes. The rejected draft According to opinion polls by the Kyiv- emerging market research at Royal Bank party beat up pro-Russian activists, who statement also proposed calling on the based Razumkov think-tank, the share of of Scotland, according to May 16 news arrived in Lviv from Russophone south- Ukrainians who are ready to vote for Russian government to treat with respect ern regions, clashed with police, burned the tragic pages of Ukraine’s history and reports. Prospects were good a year ago Svoboda increased from 2.8 percent in and it seemed that remarkable people in red flags and destroyed a wreath which August 2010 to 4.6 percent in April 2011. to prevent speculation on sensitive topics. the Russian consul, Oleg Astakhov, was Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on the administration would not only talk, but Over the same period, support for the also promote reform, he said. Everything going to lay at the local cemetery. One YTB grew from 13.7 percent to 17.9 per- December 16, 2010, said that the USSR member of Svoboda was shot in the leg would have won the war even without looked promising until November 2010, cent. The figures for the second most when the process of reforms halted, said by a local pro-Russian activist (www. popular opposition party, the Front for Ukraine. The Foreign Affairs Ministry of Anders Aslund, senior researcher at the zaxid.net, Ukrayinska Pravda, May 9). Change, which is headed by charismatic Ukraine did not give an official response Peterson Institute for International Lviv Oblast Governor Mykhailo and young former chairman of the to the statement, describing it as the per- Economics. Mr. Ash also said that half of Tsymbaliuk, pressed by the Svoboda Verkhovna Rada Arseniy Yatsenyuk, sonal position of the Russian prime minis- the growth in investment in Ukraine was party, which dominates the regional improved from 5.3 percent to 10.8 per- ter. (Ukrinform) due to banks, especially banks with for- council, tendered his resignation on the cent. eign capital. But after the crisis and due to following day (www.zaxid.net, May 10). The opposition’s popularity is growing Yanukovych on ethno-national policy a low level of capital return banks will The radicals from the Svoboda party in obviously at the expense of the PRU and KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor Lviv made use of divide-and-rule tactics, remain cautious for a long time, he said. its junior partner in the government, the Yanukovych has said that the principles of which the ruling Party of Regions (PRU) The only exceptions are Russian banks, relatively new party Strong Ukraine, state ethno-national policy and tolerance pursues ahead of the parliamentary elec- which have been aggressively expanding whose leader is the liberal Vice Prime have to be improved. “Much work is still tions scheduled for October 2012. On their balances, driven by geopolitical Minister Sergey Tigipko. Razumkov’s to be done. We should improve the princi- April 21, the PRU-dominated Parliament interests, the RBS representative said. polling figures for the two parties ples of the state ethno-national policy, ruled that red flags would be used along plunged, respectively, from 41.2 percent Investors have been increasingly eyeing with the national blue-and-yellow flags establish an intercultural dialogue and tol- Asia, Latin America and Africa, therefore to 22.1 percent and from 11.1 percent to erance in public life, and work more on during the Victory Day celebrations across 6.1 percent. rivalry for investment has been increasing the country. By doing so, the PRU deliber- the settlement of problems linked to the in Europe, he said. Neighboring countries Mr. Tigipko has signaled that he may improvement of life in the motherland of ately provoked tension in Lviv and other quit the government to focus on the elec- have managed to create a far more appeal- western areas where red flags are associat- those deported and their descendants,” ing investment climate than Ukraine, Mr. tion campaign if the government contin- reads the text of president’s address on the ed with communism and the Soviet occu- ues to drag its feet over unpopular market Ash said. (Interfax-Ukraine) occasion of the 67th anniversary of depor- pation in the mid-20th century rather than reforms (Ukrayinska Pravda, March 18; tation of Crimean Tatars and persons of A “shameful” Victory Day with the victory in World War II. Inter TV, March 25). As a result, Strong other nationalities from Crimea. President On April 28, the Lviv Oblast Council Ukraine’s popularity may grow at the KYIV – National Deputy Andriy Yanukovych noted that 67 years ago about ruled to outlaw red flags in Lviv (www. expense of both the YTB and the PRU as Shevchenko of the Yulia Tymoshenko 200,000 Crimean Tatars were deported zaxid.net, April 28). At the same time, last year’s presidential election showed Bloc-Batkivschyna faction said he thinks from the Crimean peninsula, which pro-Russian activists from Crimea decid- Mr. Tigipko drew support from the the people of Ukraine deserve an apology destroyed their “centuries-old life organi- ed to go to Lviv with red flags evidently regional strongholds of both parties. for the May 9 clashes in Lviv. “This situa- zation and cultural tradition.” The presi- to provoke the Svoboda party and other Mr. Tigipko may well join the ranks of tion deserves an honest conversation and dent said, “The obtaining of independence nationalists (www.comments.ua, May 6). the opposition ahead of the election, fur- apologies, and people will draw their own Conflict in this context was inevitable. ther fragmenting the opposition, which is by Ukraine opened the way back to their conclusions,” he said in Parliament on Despite ideological differences, disunited even without him. native land for those deported, and at pres- May 11. He said that this year’s Victory Svoboda and the PRU pursue one com- Ms. Tymoshenko is wary of alliances ent we can be proud of the variety of our Day on May 9 made it possible to draw mon goal ahead of the parliamentary with smaller nationalist opposition parties multinational cultural heritage. We by certain conclusions: “Conclusion No. 1: election. This is to weaken the most pop- such as former President Viktor right are proud that over the years of We had the most shameful Victory Day in ular opposition force, the bloc of former Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine after her Ukraine’s independence there were no Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. PRU squabbles with them when she was prime serious international conflicts. This testi- (Continued on page 14) ideologists want to radicalize society in minister in 2008-2010. She told a recent western Ukraine where Svoboda and the press conference that she does not talk Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB) share the with Mr. Yushchenko as they share differ- same nationalist electorate so that the ent values (UNIAN, May 6). THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FOUNDED 1933 more radical elements of the electorate The ambitious Mr. Yatsenyuk does not vote for Svoboda rather than the YTB. intend to join any alliances either. He said An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., Such tactics worked in the local elec- his goal is to overtake the YTB in the a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. tions last fall, as a result of which 2012 polls so as to become the second Yearly subscription rate: $55; for UNA members — $45. Svoboda dominates several oblast coun- strongest party in parliament after the Periodicals postage paid at Caldwell, NJ 07006 and additional mailing offices. cils in western Ukraine. 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by Mykola Riabchuk Why have the “Regionals” reintro- with potentially a much broader electoral was as subtle a substitute for anti-Ukrai- duced the red flag that is a clear irritant base all over the country. nian angst as Soviet “anti-Zionism” for “Show,” “spectacle,” “theater” and “per- for so many co-citizens? But the price for this perfidious game anti-Semitism. formance” seem to be the most popular Is it just an attempt to appease and to might be too high. And there are some It is not clear yet whether we are wit- metaphors employed by Ukrainian observ- mobilize their Sovietophile electorate at signs that the Party of Regions, despite nessing some splits within the ruling ers to describe the May 9 clashes in Lviv the cost of the perceived anti-Soviet appearances to the contrary, is not homog- team between the pro-Moscow hawks between local nationalists and Russian minority? Is it a symbolic gesture to enous and monolithic in this regard. First, and more pragmatic doves, or whether barnstormers who came with red flags from indulge Russia in exchange for some per- President Yanukovych opted not to sign this reflects some backtracking from too Odesa and Crimea to celebrate Victory Day sonal/corporate benefits? Is it merely a the controversial decree on the red flag’s rough and assertive anti-Ukrainian poli- in a city that has a substantially different maneuver to divert public attention from official usage and relied on so-called legal cies of today’s mostly Russian and view of the “victory” and a radically differ- the dramatic failures of their social and expertise. He condemned the violence in Russophone “elite,” or perhaps some hes- ent view of red flags. economic policies, from the rampant cor- Lviv and promised a “determined response itation evoked by the obvious fact that re- The “theatrical” metaphors should not ruption within their own ranks and grow- to those who want to bask in a bloody fire” Sovietization in Ukraine, despite initial undermine the seriousness of the conflict ing international criticism of their heavy- but did not specify the culprits. In fact, his expectations, has not proceeded as and its consequences for Ukraine’s future. handed dealing with opposition? reference to “some activists [that] are try- smoothly as in Russia and Belarus. Rather, they signal the staged, prefabricated Or, maybe, as Prof. Alexander Motyl ing again to split the Ukrainian people,” One thing is clear, however: the genie of character of the event, pointing to its Kyiv suggests, it is a part of a wider strategy: and to the “attempts to exploit politically Russian/Russophone nationalism in directors and, arguably, Moscow architects. to undermine the Ukrainian, i.e. largely the tragedies of the 20th century” can be Ukraine has been released from the Soviet The stage for the conflict was set on pro-European and anti-Soviet identity, applied to both sides (http://www.presi- bottle and is very unlikely to be put back. April 21 when the Ukrainian Parliament and thereby to weaken the social base of dent.gov.ua/en/news/20032.html). What looked like mere Sovietophile nostal- amended the 2000 law on commemoration the Orange opponents? Hanna Herman, his top adviser, gia throughout the 1990s has been institu- of victory in the so-called “Great Patriotic All these assumptions may hold some expressed this idea unequivocally by say- tionalized recently as a vociferous political War” of 1941-1945. A politically crucial truth but they hardly justify the costs to ing that the both sides of the conflict movement, with very strong Russian and request was added to raise the red Soviet be inevitably paid for the presumed bene- deserve each other: “Яке їхало таке probably FSB connections and even stron- flag (euphemistically defined as the “Flag fits. In long run, the Sovietophile policies здибало” (Like guests, like hosts). ger Ukrainophobic zeal. This might be a of Victory”) on all official buildings and would definitely subvert Ukraine’s Oleksandr Yefremov, the head of the par- greater challenge for any Ukrainian govern- sites, and to use it at all official ceremonies European integration, preclude any liamentary faction of the Party of Regions, ment than the antithetical and ideological on V-Day and at relevant events, alongside chances to become a part of the first seemed to backtrack when he stated that Frankenstein from the Ukrainian far right the national blue-and-yellow flag. world, and deadlock it perhaps forever in “probably we have to stipulate this [the red cherished covertly by the Party of Regions. Neither Ukrainian national deputies flag official status] not by law but by parlia- Whatever President Yanukovych does nor the president needed to have been the Russia-dominated “Eurasian” space mentary decree and to think more deeply with the as yet unsigned law, he will great statesmen to understand the provoc- of backwardness and despotism. about this matter” (http://gazeta.ua/articles/ encounter a problem. The red flag has been ative and subversive character of this This actually might not be a problem politics/382050). used already without his signature and is suggestion. Even if they watched only for the ruling “elite” since they personal- And the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign likely to be re-deployed in the future. The Russian TV and used no other sources of ly joined the European Union long ago, Affairs responded to its Russian counterpart regional authorities in Luhansk have information, they would certainly have keeping their accounts, families and real with a sharp – albeit wrapped in diplomatic already declared they are not going to known that the Soviet flag is absolutely estate in the hostile West rather than in wording – call to tone down anti-Ukrainian remove the red flags at least until June 22 – unacceptable for a significant portion of friendly Russia. But the real cost of con- hysteria in the Russian mass media and pay the day when the Great Patriotic War began. the Ukrainian population, primarily in the tentious, divisive policies stubbornly pur- more attention to nationalistic and xenopho- They may well extend, in good faith, the western but also in the central part of the sued by the Donbas “elite” might be the bic excesses in Russia itself. The statement presence of these flags indefinitely, or even country. They should certainly have division of the country at best, or its implies that Russia, unlike Ukraine, has not substitute them for the national flags. known that for millions of Ukrainians the “Ulsterization” at worst. yet got rid of “politicians who earn political In the longer term, they may have no red flag is, first and foremost, the symbol One may find some disturbing analogies dividends through provoking tensions in need for a national president in remote Kyiv. of occupation, of terror and genocide, the between Russian supremacists waving red bilateral relations.” Still worse, some gulag and the Holodomor, Russification, flags in western Ukrainian cities and Ulster Russian politicians try to “divide peoples Mykola Riabchuk is an author and and national humiliation. unionists marching with their flags through into more or less worthy heirs of the victory journalist from Ukraine, and a leading For many Ukrainians, like for the Poles the Catholic quarters to celebrate the 1688 over fascism” (http://www.mfa.gov.ua/mfa/ intellectual who is affiliated with the and the Balts, World War II on their territo- historical victory and symbolic dominance en/publication/content/53249.htm). journal Krytyka. ry was a clash of two equally dreadful pred- of the colonizers over the aborigines. Ukrainian TV, even though largely The article above is reprinted from the ators: the Nazis and Bolsheviks. Which of Aborigines apparently dislike it and react state-controlled, covered the May 9 blog “Current Politics in Ukraine” (http:// the two was more oppressive might be an emotionally, as happened in Lviv, to the events in Lviv in a much more balanced ukraineanalysis.wordpress.com/) created interesting question for academic debates, great joy of Moscow propagandists who and moderate way than Russian TV net- by the Stasiuk Program for the Study of but it is of little relevance for people who represent Ukrainians’ outrage at imperial works, engaged in overtly propagandistic Contemporary Ukraine, a program of the feel today that the Nazi regime is dead and symbols as a crypto-fascist denial of the Halychyna-bashing and anti-nationalistic Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at buried, while the Soviet regime, in its “Great Victory” and another proof of soli- witch-hunts, in which “anti-nationalism” the University of Alberta. Putinist neo-imperial reincarnation, is alive darity with the defeated Nazis arguably and well, and still threatens their shaky sta- inherent in Western Ukraine. bility and sovereignty by various means. “Perception of past Nazi collaborators This is why a significant portion of divides Ukraine” ran the headline of Ukrainians does not buy the Stalinist Russia Today, the leading Kremlin mouth- Quotable notes notion of the Great Patriotic War and piece, clearly outlining how the clashes in Lviv should be interpreted for both the “Myth No. 1 is that the red flag is a symbol of victory. On the contrary, under rejects defiantly Russian attempts to capi- this flag, the Soviets started a bloody war on September 1, 1939. This fact is hid- talize politically on the historical victory domestic and international market. Both the Russians and foreigners buy the den by those who want to enforce upon Ukrainians Stalin’s interpretation of by promoting particular nationalistic and World War II history. imperialistic agenda. news at face value. Even the respectable BBC informed its readers about the “clash- “Many Ukrainians do not really know who started the war. They were Joseph So, the main question is whether Stalin and Adolph Hitler.” President Viktor Yanukovych and his es between Ukrainian nationalists and pro- Party of Regions (in fact, the party of one Russian activists,” as if “pro-Russianness” – Taras Vozniak, political expert and editor of the independent magazine Yi, in region, mostly comprising the Donbas) was the main feature of rabidly chauvinistic a May 5 interview with ZIK (Western Information Agency), answering the ques- share the Russian nationalistic view of and Ukrainophobic provocateurs purposely tion: “What myths about World War II dominate history books and the mindsets the second world war as a great victory of brought to Lviv from southeastern Ukraine. of Ukrainians?” the Soviet (read Russian) people and the The pre-war Sudetenland Nazis might have been labeled “pro-German activists” by the proof of their superiority over their “I will say it frankly: for the past few years I have not felt the trauma that I neighbors, thus legitimizing their current same logic and with the same precision. The Russian intent to deepen the experienced on May 9. What kind of a nation would mark this day by standing “privileged interests” in the region. under the red banner?” This might well be true taking into Ukrainian divide has become an obsession, account the provincial character of the rul- along with efforts to discredit any strong – Former President Viktor Yushchenko, speaking during events commemorat- ing Donbas “elite,” their extremely low cul- anti-Soviet, pro-European Ukrainian identi- ing victims of Communist repressions at the Bykivnia Graves National Reserve tural and educational level, poor knowledge ty as rabidly anti-Russian, xenophobic and on May 15, as quoted by Interfax-Ukraine. of both national and global history and the crypto-fascist. outside world in general, the profound These intents may perfectly resonate entrenchment of Soviet values and stereo- with the Party of Regions’ desire to margin- “Ukraine is the most divided today than at any time in its two-decade history, types in their minds, and, of course, their alize the political opposition by a complex something deepened by [Minister of Science, Education, Youth and Sports sheer opportunism driven by multiple busi- two-fold strategy. One aspect was men- Dmytro] Tabachnyk and the flying of the Soviet flag in World War II victory cel- ness (political-cum-economic) interests. tioned already: re-Sovietization and ebrations this month. Ukraine’s divisions were pushed by the Yanukovych elec- Thus, the real question is not about Russification of Ukraine as a way to weak- tion campaign to the brink of civil war in the 2004 elections and have been made their views and commitments, whatever en Ukrainian identity and undermine the worse by his successive policies.” they are, but about their complete igno- power-base of the Orange opponents. The – Taras Kuzio, an Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation visiting fellow at the rance of the beliefs of the other part of other aspect is aimed at promotion and Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, society that makes up, by various sur- covert support of radical nationalists in John Hopkins University, in his commentary “Time to Take a Reality Check,” veys, between one-quarter and one-half western Ukraine in order to undermine published in the Kyiv Post on May 11. of the national population. Ukrainian moderates as real political rivals 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 No. 21

Translation... Investors sue (Continued from page 1) producers of film 1930s and World War II, beginning with on Holodomor dekurkulization, then the Holodomor, and followed by the persecution of a PARSIPPANY, N.J. – “Investors in a wide range of ethnic minorities, ranging documentary about a Stalin-era genocide in from Poles to Tatars. Ukraine are suing the film’s producers for The scholar even addresses Stalin’s failing to release the picture,” was the news order to arrest more than 800,000 “anti- carried by The Hollywood Reporter on social” elements of society, such as alco- April 27. holics and prostitutes, estimating that The film is “Holodomor: Ukraine’s half of those rounded up were eventually Genocide.” And the suit was filed by murdered. Eugenia Dallas, Luba Keske, Nestor “Stalin’s Genocides” also illustrates Popowych and Walter Keske against film- how Soviet delegates lobbied for the makers Bobby Leigh and Marta Tomkiw wording of the genocide convention, and their entity, Holodomor the Movie, ultimately adopted in 1948 by the United LLC. Nations General Assembly, to be restrict- However, the group of plaintiffs ed to ethnic, national, racial and reli- Volodymyr Musyak described by the news media as investors is Dr. Norman M. Naimark presented his book “Stalin’s Genocides,” translated into gious groups, excluding social and politi- more than that. They include producers, the Ukrainian language, at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy on fund-raisers and a survivor of the cal groups. May 11. “Some historians say that, even if Holodomor – the Famine-Genocide of Stalin had the goal of destroying gained legitimacy among Russian aca- Dr. Naimark earned his three academ- 1932-1933 in Ukraine. Ukrainian peasants, it doesn’t necessari- demia, with the Kremlin’s support. ic degrees at Stanford University, which Eriq Gardner of The Hollywood ly mean that he wanted to destroy them “The Holodomor was a very con- is world renowned for its Soviet studies Reporter wrote: “The plaintiffs allege the because they were Ukrainian,” Dr. cealed terrorist act against the back- department. For 15 years he was a pro- failure caused emotional distress for the Naimark said. “In this regard, I pose the ground of a general Soviet famine, yet fessor of history at Boston University Ukrainian community and constituted a question, ‘What [is the] difference?’ ” caused by entirely different reasons,” and a fellow of the Russian Research fraud on all those who put up money with Soviet leaders realized that the said Dr. Stanislav Kulchytskyi, one of Center at Harvard University. the expectation that an atrocity that extermi- Ukrainian peasant wasn’t going to fit Ukraine’s top Holodomor researchers, The day before Dr. Naimark’s presen- nated approximately 25 percent of the into the new social order being built by who joined Dr. Naimark in presenting tation, Ukrainians celebrated Victory Ukrainian population in the early 1930s the Soviets, which was based on a the book. Day, which remains a national holiday. would finally be recognized by the world.” homogenized, denationalized Soviet citi- “Ukraine was already boiling before Communists in Kharkiv hoisted up The story was picked up also by zen, he said. the ‘smashing blow’ – as Stalin called it Stalin portraits while marching in the Courthouse News Service’s Entertainment “Stalin and his lieutenants used the – was applied. That is the essence of the city’s Victory Day parade, and the Soviet Law Digest, which disseminated the news beginning of the Holodomor to literally Holodomor which differentiated it from Officers’ Union paid for a Stalin bill- on April 29. break the backs of the Ukrainian peas- the Kazakh and central Russian fam- board to be hung in the city of Luba Keske, who was executive produc- antry, and we have all the evidence and ines,” Dr. Kulchytskyi noted. Sevastopol. er of the film, was asked by The Ukrainian proof of this,” he said. The day after his press conference, Dr. Dr. Naimark said he was startled to Weekly to comment on the suit. In a state- Dr. Naimark’s work also offers evi- Naimark discussed his book with stu- see portraits of Stalin for sale among the ment received on May 9, Ms. Keske, speak- dence that the Holodomor was a geno- dents at Kyiv Mohyla Academy, fol- souvenir kiosks lining Kyiv’s pictur- ing on behalf of Mrs. Dallas, Mr. cidal act that was distinct from the fam- lowed by a formal presentation attended esque Andriyivskyi Uzviz (St. Andrew’s Popowych and Mr. Keske, said: ines that plagued the Lower Volga basin by leading Holodomor historians, such Descent). “Imagine if portraits of Hitler “After four years of providing encour- and Kazakhstan at that time, debunking a as Dr. Yurii Shapoval, and members of were sold in such a way,” he said, reveal- agement and financial assistance to com- claim that has gotten much attention and the Ukrainian intelligentsia. ing his disgust. plete this important film project, and after the final cut of the film was completed in late 2009, we were left with no alternative but to proceed seeking assistance from the The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund: April legal system. Before going to court, we Amount Name City A. and K. Kobryn North Port, FL made every possible attempt to persuade $105.00 Oleh Podryhula East Sandwich, MA Anna Krawczuk Holmdel, NJ Mr. Leigh and Ms. Tomkiw to complete the final touches of the movie with the goal of $100.00 Jaroslaw and Maria Clark, NJ John R. and Natalie Elverson, PA being distributed to the worldwide public. Tomorug Lapic Unfortunately, both participants have decid- $55.00 Ihor Bemko Edinboro, PA Maria Leskiw Philadelphia, PA ed not to continue our mutual goal of hav- Andrew Czernyk Bedford Hills, NY Oksana and Lavro Penn Yan, NY ing the film completed. Marta Pereyma Arlington, VA Polon “Therefore, in order to reach this goal, Roman Procyk Huntingdon Valley, PA $10.00 Iya Awramtshuk-Klim West Lafayette, IN namely: ‘to have this film released with his- $50.00 Oksana Bashuk- Gatineau, QC Olena Dockhorn Southampton, PA torical accuracy and distributed worldwide, Hepburn Christine Kaczmar Media, PA as promised to Holodomor survivors, to the Gloria Paschen Elgin, IL Tom Krop Afton, VA government of Ukraine and, very impor- Zenon Zachar West Bloomfield, MI William Lypowy Ringwood, NJ tantly, to the countless individual supporters $45.00 Wolodymyr Mohuchy Newark, NJ Irene Onufryk Flanders, NJ and contributors from the U.S. and around $35.00 George Lewycky Milltown, NJ Gregory Pylypiak Ewing, NJ the world,’ we were required to proceed $30.00 Mary Efremov New York, NY George and Tatyana Berkeley Heights, NJ with the present action.” John Kytasty Livonia, MI Sierant Reached by The Weekly, Ms. Tomkiw $27.50 Roman Bilak Kenosha, WI Z. and L. Singura Carteret, NJ wrote in a May 10 e-mail message: $25.00 Marian Bellinger Riverton, WY $5.00 John Petro Garbera Stamford, CT “It is with great shock, disappointment and a deep sadness within our hearts we Oleh and Natalia Bobak Meadowbrook, PA Areta Halibey Westchester, IL take this moment to inform the Ukrainian Andrew Boyko Cleveland, OH Ivanna Hanushevsky North Providence, RI Dmytro Hrushetsky Westchester, IL diaspora that on April 25, 2011, Luba Ulana Koropeckyj Lusby, MD Keske, her German husband, Wally Keske, Chorney Elsie Jaremko Buffalo, NY Myron and Daria Downers Grove, IL Nestor Popowych and Eugenia Dallas have Michael Kowalysko Gaithersburg, MD filed a lawsuit against our film George and Irene Nanty Glo, PA Jarosewych Andrew Lewczyk Washington, DC ‘Holodomor: Ukraine’s Genocide,’ against Nestor Bobby Leigh, the director of the film and Sam Liteplo Brooklyn, NY Rostyslaw and Helen Edison, NJ against Marta Tomkiw, the producer. … Dmytro Porochniak Wayne, NJ Ratycz “Our film, ‘Holodomor: Ukraine’s Helena Reshetar Tucson, AZ Dmytro Sich Alfred Station, NY Genocide,’ although currently viewable, is Walter Strzalka Perth Amboy, NJ Oksana Sydoriak Hillsborough, CA not yet 100 percent complete in the form $4.00 Jerry Petryha Van Nuys, CA Klara Szpiczka North Port, FL that we can distribute it. We still need to

Orest and Chris Pittstown, NJ make a few technical adjustments, such as Walchuk TOTAL: $1,366.50 color correction, sound mix, post-produc-

$20.00 Peter Bencak Chicago, IL tion completion; we need to pay a few indi- Sincere thanks to all contributors to The Ukrainian viduals who are still owed money and who Ihor and Alla Cherney Oradell, NJ Weekly Press Fund. Sonia Dubas Parsippany, NJ worked on deferred payment. Unfortunately fund-raising efforts and the post-production Michael Tomych Glendale, CA The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund is the only fund of our film has grown to a halt. $15.00 Olga Ariza Miami, FL dedicated exclusively to supporting the work of this “We, Marta Tomkiw and Bobby Leigh, Walter Gerent West Hartford, CT cannot even begin to comprehend why Stefan Golub Minneapolis, MN publication. (Continued on page 22) No.21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 5

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SPOTLIGHT ON SOYUZIVKA: Environmental specialists on the scene

KERHONKSON, N.Y. – Recently, the release and establish and implement a passers-by may have witnessed huge clean-up protocol in cooperation with and excavating equipment, cherry-pickers and response to the DEC. construction crews invading the woods of The DEC is making regular inspec- Soyuzivka. Many have wondered what tions of the site and, at their latest meet- has been going on. ing with UNA executives, reported it is On March 8, a release of heating oil on pleased with the efforts to date. Stefan Soyuzivka property was reported by a Kaczaraj, UNA president, and Ms. motorist to the New York Department of Lisovich were joined by the DEC Environment Conservation (DEC). Oil inspector last week for a joint site was observed on the eastern side of the inspection to review the progress that Main House on Foordmore Road. The has been made. release was not visible from Soyuzivka’s The 24-hour continuous response Main House or public areas. project, ably coordinated by Nestor Roma Lisovich, UNA treasurer, Paslawsky, Soyuzivka’s general manager, reports that Soyuzivka began contain- has been ongoing since March and is ment efforts within hours of the notifica- being implemented by a tireless com- tion and engaged environmental special- bined crew of Soyzivka’s own staff and ists in an effort to identify the source of specialists.

Officials from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation with the UNA president and Soyuzivka manager.

“We are focused on this ’round the will still be working throughout the next clock. Staying on top of the situation is coming months. key,” said Mr. Paslawsky. All steps are As can be expected, the cost of this being taken to contain the release. response action requires a substantial and The underground oil tanks serving the immediate outlay of funds, putting a sub- Main House had to be removed to reach stantial strain on Soyuzivka’s resources. the impacted soil underneath, in compli- “This could not have happened at a worse ance with DEC requirements. A tempo- time,” President Kaczaraj noted. rary oil tank has been installed and is pro- “Reimbursement efforts, of course, are viding the Main House with heat and hot being aggressively pursued. We hope our water. members will understand, be patient and The good news is that the project will supportive.” not impact the operation of the summer UNA executives say that they will season. The response site is not part of continue to take all the necessary steps Soyuzivka’s public area and will be required to respond in accordance with Excavation equipment on the scene at Soyuzivka. fenced off to identify its location. Crews DEC guidelines.

OUN’s worldwide leader visits UNA headquarters

by Roma Hadzewycz tion paper on “The Independent Ukrainian State: 2011 and Beyond.” PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Stefan The type of Ukraine that the OUN Romaniw, leader of the Organization of leader said he would like to see devel- Ukrainian Nationalists worldwide, paid oped is “a Ukraine where people of vari- a visit to the headquarters of the ous nationalities want to live,” where the Ukrainian National Association here on people would think about “what they can April 8. do for their Ukraine.” His stopover took place in the midst Mr. Romaniw, who was elected in July of his tour of Ukrainian communities in 2009 to lead the OUN worldwide, visited the United States, where he was to speak communities in Passaic, N.J., New York, about the role of the OUN in the devel- Yonkers and Buffalo, N.Y., Philadelphia opment of Ukraine, as well as the role of and Chicago between April 7 and 17. He the diaspora given present-day realities said his aim was to engage the communi- in Ukrainians’ ancestral homeland. ty in a dialogue on the topic “What does Mr. Romaniw, who also serves as it mean in 2011 to be a nationalist?” general secretary of the Ukrainian World In addition, Mr. Romaniw said he Congress and is particularly active in would ask Ukrainian community mem- efforts to gain worldwide recognition of bers to ponder what it means to be valu- the Holodomor as genocide targeting the able to Ukraine and to begin a discussion people of Ukraine, met with UNA exec- about what an independent Ukrainian Roma Hadzewycz utive officers and the editor-in-chief of state means for the diaspora as well as the Stefan Romaniw (second from left) with UNA executive officers (from left) the UNA’s two newspapers, Svoboda people of Ukraine. Treasurer Roma Lisovich, President Stefan Kaczaraj and First Vice-President and The Ukrainian Weekly. He told the UNA leaders, President Michael Koziupa. He spoke about the goal of develop- Stefan Kaczaraj, First Vice-President ing “a Ukrainian Ukraine” as an alterna- Michael Koziupa and Treasurer Roma Mr. Romaniw also noted that he would important work. tive to “[President Viktor] Yanukovych’s Lisovich, as well as Editor-in-Chief like to put on the agenda of the Ukrainian Concluding his visit to the UNA, Mr. Ukraine.” One of the ways to do this, he Roma Hadzewycz that he would present World Congress a plan about how to dis- Romaniw agreed to be interviewed after noted, would be to create an Institute of his thesis that “We all have a role to play seminate information about the contribu- he completed his tour of Ukrainian com- Public Affairs, a think-tank or brain in the development of Ukraine – no mat- tions of the Ukrainian diaspora in order munities in order to share his observa- trust, that would work to prepare a posi- ter where we are.” to make people in Ukraine aware of its tions about his meetings.

THE UNA:117 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 No. 21

COMMENTARY The Ukrainian Weekly The Demjanjuk verdict Eurasia, including Ukraine, no longer Perhaps it should come as no surprise that a court in Munich found John strategic priority under Obama’s ‘reset’ Demjanjuk guilty on 28,060 counts of accessory to murder – one for each person who died during the time he was ruled to have been a guard at Sobibor. After all, by Taras Kuzio early 1990s who he had the misfortune to once it was clear the court had accepted into evidence certain controversial pieces of give what became known as the “Chicken evidence – supplied by Soviet authorities during the Cold War – the jig was up. Independent Ukraine has worked with Kiev” speech to the Soviet Ukrainian First, there was the infamous Trawniki identification card – whose provenance and four U.S. presidents and these can be Parliament in July 1991. But, of course, authenticity have been questioned by numerous experts and observers of the more readily divided into two groups in terms the geopolitical situation today is very than 30-year-long Demjanjuk case. The credibility of the ID card was previously of their policies and attitudes towards different for President Obama. called into question in legal proceedings in both the United States and Israel, and the Ukraine. The most pro-Ukrainian were The Obama administration’s “reset” card is suspected to be a KGB forgery for reasons too numerous to be mentioned here. Democrat Bill Clinton and Republican policy with Russia has eclipsed other pol- And then there was the matter of previously discredited testimony originally George W. Bush, while the less interested icies towards the non-Russian states of given in 1949 to Soviet authorities by one Ignat Danilchenko, who claimed to have in Ukraine, and the ones committed to a Eurasia, including Ukraine and even known Mr. Demjanjuk in 1943 at Sobibor. In 2009, when the Demjanjuk trial was Russia-first policy were Presidents Georgia, where reforms have taken place set to begin in Germany, Danilchenko was listed among the witnesses, although he George H.W. Bush and the current presi- (unlike Ukraine). This has been advanta- had died in 1985 without ever being questioned about his testimony. The court dent, Barack Obama. geous to Russia because President allowed the transcript of a 1979 interview with Danilchenko by a Soviet prosecutor This points to the fact that there is not Obama, unlike his predecessor, does not to be read into the record over the protestations of the Demjanjuk defense. There a “pro-Ukrainian” political party in the actively support NATO enlargement or continue to be concerns the Danilchenko record could be a forgery by the Soviet U.S. as policies are very much dependent more assertive promotion of democracy. KGB or that it could have been obtained under duress. upon the personality of the president, the Ukraine, therefore, is less important to It was troubling also that the Munich court repeatedly denied the defense’s situation on the ground and the geopoliti- his administration. The Yanukovych motions for access to more documents, as well as additional expert witnesses on the cal situation during the period of time he administration and experts in Kyiv have reliability of documents from the former USSR. “The court’s bias is further evi- is in office. Democrats and Republicans, failed to understand that Ukraine is not a denced by their willingness to ignore the Demjanjuk investigative files still hidden in therefore, have been both pro-Ukrainian priority for Washington, which has far Russia,” Mr. Demjanjuk’s son, John Demjanjuk Jr., said in a statement in November and Russia-centric. more pressing issues to deal with of 2010. “The history of the Israeli proceeding, which nearly ended in the execution The same was true during the Cold (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc.). In of the wrong man, should cause them to want all of the evidence available.” War. the post-9/11 world, the importance of The court’s intransigence on this matter continued even into the Munich trial’s Republican U.S. Presidents Richard Eurasia to US security has declined. closing days, when the Associated Press published a bombshell: “An FBI report kept Nixon and Bush (the elder) supported, in President Viktor Yanukovych’s poli- secret for 25 years said the Soviet Union ‘quite likely fabricated’ evidence central to the first case, détente with the USSR, and cies have deepened the Russia-first poli- the prosecution of John Demjanjuk.” A newly declassified FBI field office report in the latter, cooperation with Soviet cies of the Obama administration by questioned the authenticity of, yes, the Trawniki ID card – a key piece of evidence leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Meanwhile, making Ukraine less geopolitically against Mr. Demjanjuk in the U.S. and Israel, and now in Germany. The card is all the the greatest support given to Ukraine was important to Washington. Mr. more important because no living witnesses have placed Mr. Demjanjuk at Sobibor. by Democratic President Jimmy Carter Yanukovych is the first of four Ukrainian Mr. Demjanjuk’s attorney Ulrich Busch argued that the FBI report was “com- and especially Republican President presidents to not support Ukraine’s mem- pletely new” and was not among the 100,000 pages of U.S. documents related to the Ronald Reagan, both of whom were ideo- bership in NATO and his administration case that were received by German investigators. Dr. Busch asked the court to sus- logical presidents who competed with the has never explained (or outlined a strate- pend his client’s trial, saying he needed more time to investigate whether more such USSR over human rights, democracy, gy) as to how Ukraine would be the first material could be found at the National Archives in Maryland, where the AP national rights, and geopolitical and mili- post-Communist country to join the EU unearthed the document. Inexplicably, the court denied his request. tary issues. without going through NATO first. And then there is the matter of the surprising legal precedent that has now appar- President Reagan established the To be fair, the Obama administration’s ently been established – at least in Germany. As the AP reported: “There was no evi- National Endowment for Democracy in disinterest in Ukraine is also an outcome dence that Demjanjuk committed a specific crime. The prosecution was based on the 1984 and U.S. opinion polls show that of the Ukraine fatigue that emerged in theory that if Demjanjuk was at the camp, he was a participant in the killing – the greater numbers of Republican (than 2008-2009, the primary blame for which first time such a legal argument has been made in German courts.” Democratic) voters support promotion of can be placed upon President Yushchenko. It must also be noted that back in November 2009, Scott Raab wrote in Esquire democracy as a U.S. government objec- This led to the U.S. being neutral in the magazine: “…guilt and innocence, not to mention truth and justice, are beside the tive. That’s because Republicans tend to 2010 elections between the two main can- point in this case. The Germans did not bring Demjanjuk here to determine his guilt, be more in favor of the export of manifest didates, Mr. Yanukovych and Yulia but to assuage their own. Regardless of the verdict, the old man’s fate will be the destiny, seeing democracy-promotion as Tymoshenko, which resulted in into grant- same: Demjanjuk they brought here to die.” His words appear to be prescient. spreading American political and eco- ing President Yanukovych far too long a Now the Demjanjuk defense is preparing an appeal, while back in the U.S. Mr. nomic values around the world. Of honeymoon until autumn of last year. Demjanjuk’s deportation case might be reopened in view of the newly uncovered course, isolationism also exists within The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv initially FBI report, which Federal Public Defender Dennis G. Terez argued raises “a funda- both parties. exhibited too much wishful thinking mental issue of fairness.” Mr. Terez asked: “Why has the [U.S.] government for Presidents Clinton and Bush (the about Mr. Yanukovych, who has never almost 30 years withheld, contrary to court rule and order, documents which on their younger), like Presidents Carter and admitted to committing election fraud in face are plainly exculpatory and relevant?” Reagan, also were ideological presidents 2004 and who still believes he was freely And, so the strange case of John Demjanjuk continues – into its 34th year. committed to enlarging NATO to post- elected that year but was denied the presi- Communist Europe which they equated dency through a joint conspiracy by the with expanding the zone of democracy CIA and President Leonid Kuchma. from West to East. All post-Communist The U.S. should have looked more states that have joined NATO have used closely at Mr. Yanukovych’s track record May Turning the pages back... this as a steppingstone to join the as he has presided over four election European Union. frauds as Donetsk governor (1999, 2002), Ten years ago, on May 23, 2001, a memorial dedicated to President George W. Bush was ideo- prime minister (2004) and president Heorhii Gongadze and other slain journalists disappeared just logically committed to democracy pro- (2010). Indeed, free elections and Mr. 23 two days after its installation outside the offices of the Ukrainian motion, whereas President Obama is less Yanukovych are about as compatible as 2001 Independent Information Agency (UNIAN) in Kyiv. so and this change in policy has been horseradish and borsch. The black marble, four-foot-high, tombstone-like monument, welcomed by Moscow. President Viktor The Russia-first policy of the Obama “To the Slain Journalists of Ukraine: Fighters for the Truth,” was Yushchenko lost the best opportunity in administration does not mean that inscribed with names of eight journalists: Vadym Boiko, two decades of Ukrainian independence Washington has fundamentally changed Svatoslav Sosnovskyi, Volodymyr Ivanov, Borys Derevianko, Ihor Hrushetsky, to utilize support from the Bush adminis- its stance towards Ukraine. Orest Volodymyr Baster, Marianna Chorna and Gongadze. It was commissioned by the Ukraine tration to support Ukraine’s integration Deychakiwsky of the U.S. Helsinki Without Kuchma opposition group. Few group members believed the monument would into trans-Atlantic structures. In April Commission notes: The Obama remain in place for very long. 2005 I witnessed how President Administration’s policies towards Ukraine “This is a national disgrace,” said Volodymyr Lutsenko, who was one of the co-orga- Yushchenko – during his visit to broadly track with those of previous nizers of the efforts to honor eight Ukrainian journalists – first and foremost among them Washington, where he spoke to both administrations: there is support for Gongadze – who the Ukraine Without Kuchma group believed were murdered because of houses of Congress – had the city literal- Ukraine’s independence and democracy, what they wrote or reported about state authorities. ly eating out of the palm of his hand. as frustrating as that may be given that Mykhailo Batih, president of the UNIAN news agency, said he witnessed 15 men in The Obama administration’s Russia- Ukraine’s ruling elites often have acted in civilian clothes lifting the monument onto a truck. “The [Ukraine Without Kuchma] peo- first policies towards Eurasia resemble ways that give cause for questioning their ple had not approached us about putting the monument up,” said Mr. Batih. “We had very those of the first President Bush in the commitment to Ukraine’s well-being. little contact with them on the matter, so I really did not know what to think when I saw With respect to the Obama the thing being hauled away.” Taras Kuzio is an Austrian Marshall Administration, there is good practical The opposition group encountered resistance from law enforcement officials when Plan Foundation visiting fellow, Center cooperation on various security and eco- erecting the monument, because the group had not obtained the required city permits. for Transatlantic Relations, School of nomic issues (such as highly enriched ura- National Deputy Oleksander Moroz and members of his Socialist Party appeared on Advanced International Studies, Johns nium and Chornobyl, although the admin- May 21, 2001, at the UNIAN site with the monument, which had just arrived from Rivne, Hopkins University, Washington. He is istration is rightly concerned – and could where it had been commissioned and constructed after extensive problems. editor of Ukraine Analyst and can be (Continued on page 21) reached at www.taraskuzio.net. (Continued on page 22) No.21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 7

From a Canadian Angle by Oksana Bashuk Hepburn

Dismissing Ukrainian issues leads Canadian capers The Canadian Museum for Human It should be noted that Ms. Kostash to bad Canadian election results Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg, first pro- authored a 2009 piece in the Literary posed to the federal government of Canada Review of Canada in which she wrote Make no mistake, Canada’s politi- capital, and becoming a global leader in 2000 by Jewish millionaire Israel Asper, that the Holodomor was a “vast tragedy,” cal parties supporting issues dear to in recognizing the Holodomor, the seemed like a splendid idea. but hardly a genocide. Cited as one of her the Ukrainian Canadian community artificial famine orchestrated by the The goal was “to explore the subject of sources, was “Fraud, Famine and scored in the recent federal election. Kremlin in 1933 that starved some 10 human rights, with special but not exclu- Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth Those that didn’t were tufted out. million Ukrainians, as a genocide. sive reference to Canada, in order to from Hitler to Harvard” by the pro-Soviet A political disaster descended on These two parties now form the enhance public understanding of human author, Douglas Tottle. Ms. Kostash’s the Liberal Party of Canada. It opposition and the government, rights, to promote respect for others, and to inspiration for the article, she happily dropped to 34 seats out of respectively. encourage reflection and dialogue.” One of admitted, came after auditing a course Parliament’s total of 308 – an unprec- Meanwhile, the Bloc Québécois the permanent galleries was to be devoted titled “Topics in Ukrainian History” edented defeat for the country’s oldest advised that, due to time constraints, to the plight of Canada’s First Nations peo- taught by Prof. Himka. party, which had dominated Canadian it responds only to surveys that serve ples. So far so good. The UCC responded to the letter by politics for over 150 years. Bloc its self-interest! The bloc is history. When it was revealed that the other per- labeling the accusations “malicious” and Québécois, the party seeking exodus The Liberals, Mr. Ignatieff’s party, manent gallery was to focus on the “prejudicial,” “intended to defame the from Canada was tufted out, reduced provided elaborative “notes.” For Holocaust, Canada’s Ukrainians, led by the reputation of the UCC and its leader- to four seats. example, it opined that Ukraine’s Ukrainian Canadian Congress, suggested ship.” The UCCLA rejected the letter as The clear winners were the European integration was dependent the inclusion of the Holodomor as still “deceitful and slanderous,” and ques- Conservatives, gaining 24 new seats on what Ukraine’s people wanted, another permanent gallery. Ukrainian tioned the propriety of foreigners com- for a total of 167. They now have a when a simple yes or no sufficed. This Canadians also suggested the inclusion of menting on a Canadian national museum. clear majority. But the surprising vic- was a safe political response but inad- Canada’s internment camps during the first “How we spend our tax dollars, and how tory came to the socialist New equate in the face of Russia’s pres- world war. a Canadian national museum is governed, Democratic Party. Nearly obliterated sure, on such members as France and Moe Levy, executive director of the and what should be in it are matters for several elections ago, it surged to win Germany, to keep Ukraine out of Asper Foundation, prime sponsor of the Canadians to decide – our business, not 102 seats – including an ex-Commu- Europe. The response suggested that, CMHR, seemed to agree. In an April 11, theirs,” the UCCLA noted. nist who won against Canada’s for- if elected, Mr. Ignatieff would lead a 2003, letter to UCC President Paul M. A blistering academic response came eign minister – to become, for the first Canada that would do little but stand Grod and to Andrew Hladyshevsky of the from Prof. Roman Serbyn, who dissected time in history, the official opposition. back were Ukraine to follow Russia Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras the letter paragraph by paragraph, labeling So what happened? And what is the into Soviet-era recidivism. Shevchenko, Mr. Levy acknowledged that it as “mendacious” and contradictory. Ukrainian Canadian connection? Then came the kicker. Mr. the Famine-Genocide “will be featured “One does not have to be a specialist in the Briefly, having led Canada through Ignatieff’s Liberals chose the wrong very clearly, distinctly and permanently in fields in which the signatories claim exper- a global economic downturn relatively side of a high-stakes Canadian values the CMHR...We will work with your orga- tise, to see that the presentation of the unscathed – strong banks, a booming debate. The proposed – less than equi- nization to ensure that this is accom- activities of OUN, UPA and the Division is housing market, strong employment table – treatment of the Holodomor at plished.” He also agreed that the World one-sided and therefore lacking in scholar- figures – Prime Minister Stephen the Canadian Museum for Human War I internment should be included.” It ly integrity,” he wrote. “All the atrocities Harper was handed the majority Rights is an issue that makes the soon became clear, however, that only the are attributed to the Ukrainian side in the denied him since he became prime blood boil of many fair-minded citi- Holocaust would be featured permanently. Polish-Ukrainian conflict, Jews are shown minister five years ago. The Liberals, zens. They see such treatment as reac- Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, current research as being only persecuted and never saved who have traded with the tionary and un-Canadian, as a position director of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil by Ukrainians...” Conservatives between governing or that will not only undermine an insti- Liberties Association (UCCLA) suggested One wonders. Is it possible that so many leading the opposition since Canada tution devoted to equility and inclu- that one of 12 galleries be devoted exclu- non-Canadians are suddenly deeply dis- was founded in 1867 and gave Canada sivity but also Canada’s reputation as sively to the thematic treatment of geno- tressed about a museum in Canada? Marco such leaders as Pierre Tudeau and a global human rights leader. cide in general, with no group’s suffering Levytsky, editor and publisher of Jean Chrétien, lost primarily due to The UCC survey indicated that the “being elevated above all others” in the Ukrainian News, a Canadian newspaper their inept leader, Michael Ignatieff. Liberals would “not attempt to dictate CMHR. An April UCCLA news release distributed throughout Canada, thinks he Despite the hype – he was por- to the museum board how to display noted that a UCCLA-commissioned Nanos knows the answer. In his open letter on the trayed as sophisticated, worldly and issues.” In doing so the party con- Research poll demonstrated “that an over- subject, Mr. Levytsky suggests that Dr. whelming majority of Canadians (60.3 per- intellectual – Mr. Ignatieff failed to fused key Canadian values with Himka and one of his former students, Pers cent from all regions, ages and voter shine in creative policy, sharp messag- ”micromanagement” – their word – a Rudling, may have collaborated in com- groups) favored this approach. The es or debates. Canadians were left serious faux pas for any political posing the letter. Mr. Levtytsky then goes UCCLA release also mentioned that the puzzled by his rhetoric, strong on elo- party, especially one that stands for on to quote from a paper titled “The Jewish CMHR board of trustees was “largely cutions, but weak on substance. liberalism. The party that gave Card in Russian Special Operations unrepresentative of Canada’s multicultural He was in political hot water with Canada and the world multicultural- Against Ukraine” by Moses Fishbein, society.” the Ukrainian Canadian community ism, a policy dedicated to equal treat- delivered at the University of Illinois in What really got things riled up was an from the get-go. Parachuted as a can- ment, backed off in favor of indepen- June 2009: “The claim that ‘UPA engaged earlier open letter to the UCCLA, the UCC didate into a riding where the commu- dent management. In other words, in anti-Jewish actions’ is a provocation and the CMHR, published in the Jewish nity held significant membership and unfair treatment is okay providing it’s Canadian press and elsewhere, accusing engineered by Moscow... Tell me: how was fielding a candidate, questionable managed well. the UCCLA and the UCC of “campaigning could the UPA have destroyed Jews when shortcuts in the election process hit Mr. Ignatieff’s mishandling of the Jews were serving members of UPA?” issues dear to the hearts of the against the plans of the Canadian Museum main street media. In his little book for Human Rights in Winnipeg to mount a Prof. Himka responded by questioning “Blood and Belonging” he slurred Ukrainian community was an arrogant the sources cited by Mr. Levytsky, claim- dismissal of, to his mind, an insignifi- permanent Holocaust gallery.” The letter Ukrainians, then failed to redeem him- was critical of the UCC for suggesting that ing that “OUN and promoters of OUN and self when he issued a half-apology. cant or, as he might describe, them UPA like Marco Levytsky have to resort to “little” group, despite the efforts of the Holodomor should receive “no less This cavalier, damn-the-conse- coverage... than the Holocaust” and for falsifications,” which indicates their lack of quences behavior was not the only Borys Wrzesnewskyj, who soldiered real evidence. perhaps harder than most to balance having “distorted historical accounts of the “Ukrainian” factor to influence vot- Holodomor while at the same time refusing Millions of federal and local dollars ing. Consider the following. the missteps of his leader. have already been allocated for the Mr. Wrzesnewskyj lost his seat by to acknowledge the Ukrainian nationalist The Ukrainian Canadian Congress, movement’s role in the Holocaust,” specif- CMHR, but the battle is far from over. an umbrella grouping of some 1.2 mil- 20 votes and will be greatly missed. Prof. Luciuk, believes it has merely You heard it here first: he should run ically the role of the Organization of lion Canadians of Ukrainian origin, reached a temporary lull. for the party’s leadership. Ukrainian Nationalists, the Ukrainian conducted a pre-election survey to Personally, I am not surprised by the lin- Other Canadians saw through Mr. Insurgent Army (UPA) and the Waffen-SS determine party positions on Canadian gering tensions in Canada. Prof. Timothy Ignatieff’s disdain and on election day 14th Grenadier Division in the murder of values important to the Ukrainian Snyder had it right when he wrote recently voted him into political oblivion. Poles and Jews. Say what? community. that “the Holocaust disfigures the natural Unfortunately, he dragged many good The letter was signed by 78 intellectuals The NDP filled the blanks and, reflex to make sense of the past...” Must people along with him. Now he is from Canada, as well as from the United cleverly, wished Ukrainians a fine European history of the first half of the going to a prestigious University of States, Israel, France, England, Ukraine, Easter – in Ukrainian. The 20th century forever be viewed through the Toronto school to teach young minds Germany, Lithuania, Ireland, Austria and Conservatives set out their pro-human prism of the Holocaust? Good question. how he did it. Good grief! Russia. Included were well-known rights record: celebrating the 25th Ukrainophobes Efraim Zuroff and David anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Matas, as well as Ukrainian Canadians Wall, facilitating the Monument to Oksana Bashuk Hepburn may be Marco Carynnyk, Prof. John Paul Himka. Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is Victims of Communism in Canada’s contacted at [email protected]. and Myrna Kostash. [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 No. 21

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Both accidents, which have been clas- sified as level 7 nuclear accidents accord- ing to the International Atomic Energy Agency scale, serve as “alerts from the future” about the possible failures of complex and vulnerable technological super systems, he said. Both disasters, with their unpredictably severe conse- quences destroyed the “optimistically irresponsible myth of the nuclear industry complex.” Quoting numerous statistics, Dr. Shcherbak emphasized the enormous scale of the Chornobyl accident. Chornobyl radiation levels were at least 100 times bigger than the two atom bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he Lialia Kuchma Walter Tun said. Precipitation from Chornobyl clouds (left to right): Filmmakers Julian Hayda and the Rev. Myron Panchuk, photogra- Broadcaster Bill Kurtis introduces affected territories populated by 3 billion pher Luba Markewycz and Consul Uichiro Nakano of the Consulate General of the documentary film “Block Four: persons. Thirteen European countries saw Japan in Chicago. Chornobyl 2011.” 50 percent of their territory dangerously polluted with Chornobyl radioactive Shcherbak admitted that the number of Chornobyl’s No. 4 reactor and to finance He also commended the organizers of the nuclides and eight countries had 30 per- direct Chornobyl fatalities remains con- the construction of a new shell. At the conference and the many individuals, like cent of their territory similarly affected. troversial, with estimates ranging from 30 same time, Japan is facing the necessity Dr. Hryhorczuk, who have devoted their Some 5 million people live today in to 100,000, he left no doubt that the vic- of constructing steel walls to protect the lives to serve others. the areas of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia tims are numerous. sea from further contamination and an Dr. Hryhorczuk, professor emeritus at contaminated with radioactive nuclides, More than 20,000 families are receiv- estimated $170 billion to pay for other the University of Illinois School of Public he continued, representing an area similar ing welfare payments due to the loss of containment and remediation. Health, and his longtime colleague Dr. in size to the combined territory of their breadwinners, he said. More than The estimated $250 billion Ukraine Irina Dardynskaia, research associate pro- Belgium and Austria. In Ukraine, the 4,300 Ukrainians, primarily children, has spent on Chornobyl remediation fessor at UIC School of Public Health, explosion resulted in radioactive contam- have been operated on for thyroid cancer. exhausted the country’s finances and were then presented with awards from the ination of 2,294 villages and small towns, Many others are suffering from chronic damaged the economy, he remarked. Kyiv Committee of Chicago Sister Cities and more than 2.3 million individuals, fatigue syndrome, or so-called More than 600,000 clean-up workers, International for their “continuous, prin- including 643,000 children, have been “Chornobyl AIDS,” and a previously soldiers, engineers, scientists and medical cipled and dedicated work” on the health given the status of Chornobyl sufferers. unknown pathology of the muscular skel- personnel participated in emergency effects of the Chornobyl disaster on pop- Although the full impact of the etal system in children has also been activities in the contaminated territories. ulations in Ukraine and Belarus. Fukushima explosion is still unfolding, linked to Chornobyl, he reported. Some 2,500 doctors and 5,000 nurses Dr. Hryhorczuk began working on Dr. Shchercbak pointed out that radioac- Accidents of the magnitude of were employed and approximately 400 Chornobyl in 1992 as part of the World tive clouds have already reached Chornobyl and Fukushima place enor- special medical units were formed, he Bank Environmental Mission to Ukraine. California. mous burdens on a country’s technical, said. He has served as an advisor to Ukraine’s The Chornobyl accident permanently civic and financial resources, Dr. Dr. Shcherbak said he is convinced the Ministry of Health and the U.S. National changed the flora and fauna of northern Shcherbak said, and Ukraine is still strug- accident was a precipitating factor in the Cancer Institute on the health conse- quences of the Chornobyl accident. Ukraine and affected the health of count- gling to contain the radioactivity leaking ultimate dissolution of the Soviet Union For the past 15 years, Dr. Hryhorczuk less individuals. Even though Dr. through the makeshift shelter over and that it continues to serve as a lesson on the destabilizing forces of mass catas- has been the principal investigator on a trophes. Soviet authorities initially hid U.S. National Institutes of Health Fogarty the scale of the disaster from their own grant that supported research training on citizens and the international community, environmental health issues, including IN THE PRESS: Chornobyl even encouraging unprotected children to Chornobyl, in Ukraine, Belarus and take part in May Day parades in the Russia. For the past decade, he and his affected areas. research team in Ukraine have provided “The Meaning of Chernobyl,” by “… This is perhaps the central lesson This kind of disinformation and the data management support to the U.S. Yulia Tymoshenko, Moscow Times, of Chernobyl: Governments that system- resulting widespread revulsion and cyni- National Cancer Institute research pro- April 25: atically turn a blind eye to their citizens’ cism destroyed the credibility of the gram on “Thyroid Cancer in Children “… none of us knew the precise fate ultimately condemn themselves.” Soviet system, he concluded, while also Following the Chornobyl Reactor moment when catastrophe struck at pointing out that, even in democratic Accident.” Chernobyl [sic] 25 years ago. Back then, “Continuing Questions About countries, public authorities tend to mini- Dr. Dardynskaia, associate director of we lived under a system that denied ordi- Chernobyl,” editorial, The New York mize the scale of disasters to avoid gener- the University of Fogarty programs in nary people any right whatsoever to Times, May 10: ating mass panic, as evidenced in the Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, has been know about even essential facts and “It has been 25 years since the worst aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina and researching Chornobyl health issues since events. So we were kept in the dark about nuclear power accident in history at the now the Fukushima catastrophe. 1987, initially as associate professor at the radiation leaking from the shattered Chernobyl [sic] plant in Ukraine, and we Similar disasters in poor countries the Belarusian Research Institute of reactor at Chernobyl — and blowing in still aren’t certain what health damage it would easily lead to chaos, loss of sover- Radiation Medicine and as the health the winds over northern Europe. may ultimately cause. That gap needs to eignty and international destabilization, team leader in the Belarusian-led project “But the more bizarre fact about the be filled by a vigorous research program he said. Under worst-case scenarios, that first presented on-site assessments of Chernobyl disaster, we now know, is that – both to improve readiness to cope with nuclear disasters caused by accident or Chornobyl’s effects on in-utero exposed Mikhail Gorbachev, then-general secre- another bad nuclear accident and to terrorism would have devastating conse- children. tary of the Communist Party, was also enhance understanding of the long-term quences for world populations and inter- For the past 23 years, Dr. Dardynskaia kept in the dark about the magnitude of effects of low doses of radiation. national peace. He posed the question: and her collaborators in Belarus and the disaster. Indeed, it may be this very “… international health authorities What would happen if there was a nucle- Russia have been studying health effects fact that finally condemned the old sys- have found the damage from fallout ar accident in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, of Chornobyl on women and children. Dr. tem to the dustbin of history a mere five downwind to be far less than originally the Chechen Republic or parts of Africa? Dardynskaia also served as the principal years later. No regime built on limitless feared. … Emphasizing that the most important U.S. investigator of studies of breast can- self-delusion is capable of retaining a “Critics have long contended that such lesson of both accidents is the “necessity cer in women of Belarus and the health shred of legitimacy once the scale of its estimates downplayed the dangers. Now to create a new international reliable leg- effects of radiation exposure in children self-deception is exposed. a panel of experts assembled at the islative and normative basis regulating exposed to Chornobyl accident while in “… unlike Japan’s Fukushima nuclear request of the European Commission is management of nuclear and radiation utero. crisis, Chernobyl’s real lesson is not also calling for a wider look. It cited scat- safety,” Dr. Shcherbak concluded that Finally, Dr. Hryhorczuk presented Ihor about nuclear-plant safety. It is about tered reports, many appearing in leading “humankind is facing a critical choice Masnyk, Ph.D., retired head of the official arrogance and indifference to suf- scientific journals, suggesting that today: How do we ensure world energy Chornobyl Research Unit, National fering — and a cult of secrecy that allows Chernobyl’s radiation might be increas- supplies without new Chornobyls and Cancer Institute, with an award from the information to be shared only among a ing the risk of breast cancer, various other Fukushimas?” Ukrainian Academy of Medical Sciences for his outstanding 46-year career with narrow elite obsessed with stability. … cancers, and immunological abnormali- Researchers receive awards “Indifference… means that no ties, among other effects. the National Cancer Institute and espe- response to injustice and no help for the “The panel suggested that a research The next speaker, Dr. Damon Arnold, cially for his dedicated work in designing suffering will ever come. It is the tool of foundation be established to conduct director of the Illinois Department of and implementing the NCI Chornobyl governments that are, in fact, the enemy long-term studies much as a foundation Public Health, emphasized the need to research program, which included popu- of their people, for it benefits only the in Japan has been studying the long-term fund research and provide support to the lations in Ukraine and Belarus. ruler — never the victim, whose pain is effects of the bombings of Hiroshima and victims of both nuclear disasters so their magnified by neglect. … Nagasaki. It is a very good idea. …” “lives don’t receive a second tragedy.” (Continued on page 17) No.21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 9 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 No. 21

Sisters of St. Basil the Great – 100 years of service in the New World

FOX CHASE MANOR, Pa. – As part of the centennial of the arrival of the Sisters of St. Basil the Great to the United States, symposium, “The Sisters of St. Basil the Great – 100 Years of Service in the New World,” was held on Friday, April 30, at the Basilian Spirituality Center in Fox Chase Manor, Pa. The organizers of the event were: the Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great, St. Sophia Religious Association of Ukrainian Catholics in U.S.A., and the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Philadelphia. The symposium was opened with a prayer service celebrated by the Very Rev. Daniel Troyan, chaplain at the Holy Trinity Chapel, followed by words of wel- come extended by Sister Dorothy Ann Busowski, OSBM, provincial superior, who expressed her gratitude to the orga- nizers and speakers of the event. Evhen Partyka The moderator of Session 1, Nicholas Sisters of St. Basil the Great and speakers at the symposium marking the centennial of their arrival in the United States. Rudnytzky of the St. Sophia Religious Association, quoted an excerpt from the her Son, said the Rev. Kaszczak. worked at the orphanage of the Cathedral The discipline cultivated in the Basilian speech by Sister Maria Kish, OSBM, for- Father Kaszczak set the historical back- of the Immaculate Conception in schools helped him, Mr. Dubenko said, to mer provincial superior’s on the occasion ground of the sisters’ arrival in the New Philadelphia, subsequently developing a make a clear distinction between “right” of 75th anniversary of the Basilian Sisters’ World in 1911, and described the chal- firm foundation of Catholic education in and “wrong,” and to understand values in the U.S. in which she compared the sis- lenges of their first years in the U.S. The the area. Their contribution to the life of that he is passing on to his own children. ters to a precious diamond, a beautiful and pioneer sisters from Yavoriv (Ukraine) the Ukrainian Catholic Church and com- Alexander Lushnycky delivered his unbreakable jewel of the Ukrainian shared with the Most Rev. Soter Ortynsky, munity are yet to be discovered, he con- presentation on a little-known topic: national spirit and spirituality. OSBM, first bishop of the Ukrainian cluded. “Publishing: The Most Precious Legacy of This idea was developed by the first Catholic Church in America, many diffi- In her lecture titled “Through Work and the Sisters of St. Basil the Great.” He dis- speaker, the Very Rev. Dr. Ivan Kaszczak, culties. Among them were: animosity Prayer the Dream made Manifest – Manor played a collection of some 45 unique former chaplain of the Basilian Sisters, in from the Latin hierarchy; lack of adminis- College,” Anna Maksymowych introduced publications – books, calendars, and news- his presentation, “Blessed Is She, Who trative organization of the Ruthenian the audience to the history of this papers – thus setting the historical back- Believes.” He focused on love as the “per- Greek-Catholic Church; financial prob- renowned educational institution, estab- ground of the Basilian printing service. petuum mobile” of the sisters’ life and lems; demoralization of the younger gen- lished in 1947 through the efforts of Bishop Ortynsky realized the importance mission. The perfect example of such ded- eration; great number of homeless orphans Mother Josaphata Teodorowych, OSBM. of publications for multifaceted develop- icated and sacrificial love can be found in and many more. Initially named St. Macrina ment of his flock; thus, in 1912, he the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, With great sacrificial love the Sisters College, the institution opened with a stu- brought the America newspaper to who, regardless of unbearable pain and dedicated themselves to the service of dent body of 11 young women. It was Philadelphia and placed it under the super- suffering she endured at the Crucifixion of those in need, said Father Kaszczak. They chartered and incorporated into the higher vision of the Basilian Sisters. This was education system of the Commonwealth followed by the transfer of the Cathedral of Pennsylvania in 1959. Manor expand- Orphanage Printing House to them in ed its facilities to include dormitories and 1913. a library. In 1977 the Ukrainian Heritage After his death in 1916, the Sisters Studies Center (UHSC) was established to established the Misionar, a Catholic preserve, promote and perpetuate monthly magazine, and published school Ukrainian culture and traditions through books, initially in Ukrainian, and subse- educational and cultural programs. In quently, in both English and Ukrainian, addition to a folk art collection, the UHSC always responding the needs of the time maintains an extensive Ukrainian library and the community. The speaker empha- and archives. sized the significant role of these publica- Today, Manor College has an enroll- tions played in spreading the spirit of ment of 900 students with access to an knowledge and in preserving the spiritual- extensive and varied curriculum, as well ity of the Ukrainian people. as a two-year associate degree program. Sister Joann Sosler, OSBM, completed Through a participatory form of govern- her presentation, “Women in Our Lives,” ment, Manor encourages communication with a slideshow that highlighted the among all the constituencies of its aca- major aspects of Basilian life in the U.S.A. demic community. The college is gov- It began with the arrival of Mother Olena erned by a board of trustees, consisting of Langevych, OSBM and her companions in both lay and religious members. the New World in 1911. Their 100 years of The college confers the Associate in Art activity on the American continent, she and the Associate in Science degrees in said, have been marked by the prayerful, the liberal arts, transfer and career-orient- life-giving and healing power which is ed programs. Certificates and diplomas are expressed by their numerous achieve- likewise conferred in various areas of ments and contributions to parochial study. schools, St. Basil Academy, Manor In light of its Basilian tradition, Manor College, summer camps, evening and cat- provides students equal opportunity, with- echetical courses and others. out discrimination, to benefit from its edu- Sister Joann focused on the mission of cational experience. With their prayers and the Order of St. Basil the Great, which is steadfast work, the Basilian Sisters have based on a deep spirituality and contem- fulfilled their dream in America – a dream plation. The pillar of monastic life has that the entire Ukrainian communion always been Lord Jesus Christ, “the model should be proud of, concluded Ms. of prayerful, healing, compassionate, con- Maksymowych. templative, discerning, inviting, listening, Following a brief intermission, the motivating and life-giving presence,” with moderator of Session II, Yaroslaw which the Basilian Sisters have been Zalipsky, chair of the Shevchenko imbuing the life of the Ukrainian Catholic Scientific Society in Philadelphia, intro- Church for 100 years, she emphasized. duced Roman Dubenko, who shared his On behalf of the Sisters of St. Basil the thoughts on “The Sisters of St. Basil the Great, Sister Dorothy Ann Busowski Great in the Lives of Youth.” From his expressed her gratitude to the organizers, own perspective as a son of DP (displaced speakers and guests of the symposium. person) parents, he acknowledged the pro- The Rev. Troyan concluded the event with found impact the Basilian Sisters had on a prayer, which was followed by the wine his upbringing, outlook and education. and cheese reception. No.21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 11

BOOK NOTES Matios novel in translation The best of Antonych’s poetry “…Hardly Ever Otherwise,” by Maria “The Essential Poetry of Bohdan Matios, (translated by Yuri Tkacz). Ihor Antonych: Ecstasies and Elegies” Melbourne: Bayda Books. 154 pp. ISBN: translated by Michael M. Naydan. 0908480369. $23.95 (softcover). Cranford, N.J.: Bucknell University Press: 2010. 180 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8387- Maria Matios, a popular award-win- 5769-7. $43.50 (hardcover). ning female author from Ukraine, has written a family saga set in the This compilation includes some of the Carpathian Mountains during the early best works from the collections of poetry 20th century. by the late Bohan Ihor Antonych (1909- Constructed in three layers of revela- 1937), including “A Greeting to Life” tion, with three chapters that include, (1931), “The Grand Harmony” (1932- “Four Brothers, Like Kith and Kin,” 1933), “Three Rings” (1934), “The Book “Fare Ye Well, Father” and “The Swing of the Lion” (1936), “The Green Gospel” of Life,” the reader finds, as in life, that (1938) and “Rotations” (1938), as well as things aren’t as black and white as they poems published separately. first appear to be. Michael M. Naydan, the Woskob “Hardly Ever Otherwise” is a text full Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies at of emotions – love, revenge, death and Penn State University, translated the suffering – against a background of col- Ukrainian poems into English, and the orful Hutsul culture and superstition. introduction was written by Dr. Lidia Readers may obtain copies of “Hardly Stefanowska, assistant professor at Ever Otherwise” for $23.95 (U.S.) by Warsaw University. contacting Bayda Books, P.O. Box 178, Antonych’s work has been classified East Brunswick, 3057 Australia; by by experts as belonging to the “Do you want to catch rain into a e-mailingYuri Tkacz, the book’s transla- Modernism movement, with the likes of sieve? tor, [email protected]; or by visiting the Slavic writers Osip Mandelstam, Boris “Of all, the language of meadows is website www.bayda.com.au. Pasternak and Czeslaw Milosz, and their the most wondrous; someone loaded star- Western counterparts, Eliot Rilke and bullets into the rifle of the night, cuckoo Federico Garcia Lorca. birds on the alders will peck away the In his poem “Spring” Antonych writes: moon, “Antonych grows, and the grass “Antonych grows, and the grass grows, and curly alder trees are greening, grows.” – (from “The Green Gospel.”). ‘Chornobyl Angel’ to raise funds “O, bend over, just bend over, you’ll Readers may obtain copies of the book hear the most mysterious of all words. through online book retailers, or by con- “Spring, don’t distress us with April tacting the publisher: Associated rain! Who has crushed the azure sky like University Presses, 2010 Eastpark Blvd., a glass jug, who is scattering the leaves – Cranbury, N.J. 08512; telephone, 609- bits of glass at you? 655-4770, e-mail, [email protected].

Short fi ction by Valeriy Shevchuk “Lunar Pain” by Valeriy Shevchuk (translated by Yuri Tkacz). Melbourne: Bayda Books, 2010. 121pp. ISBN: 0-908480-30-X. $15-95 (softcover).

This volume of short fiction, “Lunar Pain,” was originally published in 1984 as part of Valeriy Shevchuk’s collection “A Little Evening Intermezzo.” The text is an example of Mr. Shevchuk, as a writ- er, “attuned to and in awe of, the imper- fect rationality of the world; as an observ- er of the riddles and anguishes of the human condition; and as a historian fasci- nated by people of the past ages, blessed and cursed with strange forms of knowl- edge as terrible as they are compelling.” This gothic novel describes a man’s “Chornobyl Angel,” Kyiv: Children Studies in Whippany, N.J.). Eighty-one journey as a fugitive running from the of Chornobyl Relief and Development watercolors were submitted by the chil- law and later as a jailed suspect in a crim- Fund, 2011. 49 pp. dren to illustrate the story; 24 are pub- inal case. Yuri Tkacz translated the lished in the book. Ukrainian text into English and expertly On April 26, 1986, at 1:23 a.m., the The book, described as a “social art- preserves the imagery and the moods cre- translator, in the 1980s and 1990s he No. 4 reactor 4 at the Chornobyl nuclear project” aims to remind and teach the ated in each scene. brought attention to Ukraine’s 17th and power plant exploded. Over the course next generations about Chornobyl and, Mr. Shevchuk was born in 1939 in 18th century poetic and historical writ- of two and a half decades this disaster in doing so, bring hope for a healthier Zhytomyr, Ukraine, and is a prolific ings. has affected the lives of many individu- and brighter future. A limited number author of novels, short stories, memoirs Readers may obtain copies by mail als. To commemorate the 25th anniver- of copies of “Chornobyl Angel” are and semi-autobiographical fiction, as well from: Bayda Books, P.O. Box 178, East sary of the Chornobyl disaster and the available for purchase from CCRDF as non-fictional medieval and early mod- Brunswick, 3057 Australia; or by e-mail- 20 years of its charitable work in starting until June 1 – Children’s Day. ern Ukrainian history. As an editor and ing, [email protected]. Ukraine, the Children of Chornobyl CCRDF will combine 100 percent of Relief and Development Fund proceeds from book sales with the funds (CCRDF) partnered with the National raised through the Chornobyl Charity Chornobyl Museum to publish a Walk to purchase neonatal equipment Whether they’re 15 or 50, Ukrainian-English children’s book that for the Chernihiv City Maternity touches upon the aftereffects of the Center, CCRDF’s partner hospital locat- give your children a gift subscription to nuclear catastrophe. ed closest to Chornobyl. Titled “Chornobyl Angel” To join this effort and make contribu- he krainian eekly (“Chornobylske Yanholia” in tions for this crucially needed equip- T U W . Ukrainian) and based on the novel by ment, readers may contact CCRDF at that name by Tetyana Lunyova, the [email protected] with “Chornobyl To subscribe call 973-292-9800, x 3042 bilingual book is illustrated by children Angel” in the subject line to order a from Ukraine, art schools in Kyiv and copy of the book. A $15 donation will or e-mail [email protected]. the United States (School of Ukrainian be greatly appreciated. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 No. 21 No.21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 13 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 No. 21

mony of handing over the chairmanship under the new regulations of the Euronest, mediators, as well as the EU and the United NEWSBRIEFS... from Turkey took place in Istanbul that in accordance with which decisions are States as observers). (Ukrinform) day. The Ukrainian delegation was headed taken by a vote of two-thirds of the depu- (Continued from page 2) PGO: Tymoshenko case ready for court by Foreign Affairs Minister Kostyantyn ties present at the meeting. The Gryshchenko. Ukraine has chosen chil- Parliamentary Assembly of the Eastern Ukrainian history. Conclusion No. 2: The KYIV – According to May 18 news dren’s rights and strengthening the coordi- Partnership consists of 60 deputies from reason for what happened on May 9 was reports, a criminal case against ex-Prime nating role of the Council of Europe in the European Parliament and 10 members Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is ready to be the pointless law on the flag, because one from each partner country. In his speech party wanted to return to the Soviet Union implementing regional and national initia- brought to trial, First Deputy Procurator tives in this area as one of its priorities during the forum, Mr. Tarasyuk noted that General Renat Kuzmin told a meeting of at least for one day, while other parties he considered it very important to preserve wanted to earn political dividends on this. during the chairmanship, Mr. Dykusarov the Parliamentary Investigating said. He also noted that Ukraine intends to the format of the assembly according to Commission that is looking into the cir- Have they earned them?” Mr. Shevchenko the “6 +1” formula, i.e., with the involve- added, “The main responsibility for what implement a number of practical steps cumstances surrounding the gas agree- ment of Belarus. “We agreed to organize happened on May 9 is placed on President towards continuing implementation of the ments signed by Naftohaz Ukrainy and the Euronest [meeting] without the partici- Viktor Yanukovych.” He noted that all main priorities of the Council of Europe, Russia’s Gazprom. But, Mr. Kuzmin under- pation of Belarus only if seats in this body public opinion polls showed that there is and will target its activities to strengthen scored, transfer of the criminal case to the are reserved for Belarusian deputies. We no holiday in Ukraine that would unite the the political role of the Council of Europe court has been complicated by the fact that share the concern of the EU about the state country so much as Victory Day. “What in European institutions. (Ukrinform) Ms. Tymoshenko is avoiding the necessary of democratic freedoms in Belarus, but the have you achieved? We lost a holiday that investigatory actions, in particular, familiar- Tarasyuk elected co-chair of Euronest political isolation of this country does not united Ukraine until now,” he said. Mr. ization with materials of the case. The meet the strategic interests of Ukraine, the Shevchenko said that the Verkhovna Rada amount of damage inflicted on Ukraine by KYIV – The chairman of the European Union, or the people of Belarus should hear a report by Internal Affairs the gas agreements of 2009 was estimated Verkhovna Rada Committee on European itself,” Mr. Tarasyuk explained. He also Minister Anatolii Mohyliov on the May 9 by Mr. Kuzmin at 3.5 billion hrv. He under- Integration, Borys Tarasyuk, has been stated that the Verkhovna Rada’s attitude scored that Ms. Tymoshenko during the events and, if necessary, Lviv Oblast elected as one of the two co-presidents of State Administration Chairman to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly conclusion of gas agreements with Russia the Parliamentary Assembly of the Eastern logically follows from Ukraine’s attitude “clearly went beyond the limits of her pow- (Governor) Mykhailo Tsymbaliuk. Partnership (Euronest), it was reported on (Interfax-Ukraine) toward the Eastern Partnership as a whole. ers.” According to Mr. Kuzmin, Oleh May 4. Mr. Tarasyuk will represent the The Ukrainian side sees Euronest as an Dubyna, former head of Naftohaz, could Ukraine at Council of Europe interests of all partner countries currently additional form of cooperation, which will sign contracts independently, but he consid- participating in the work of the assembly: complement bilateral interaction within ered their terms unacceptable; the prime KYIV – Ukraine has taken over the Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova the framework of the EU-Ukraine minister then interfered with the process, chairmanship of the Council of Europe’s and Ukraine. Bulgarian Kristian Vigenin, Committee on Parliamentary Cooperation. with actions of economic entities and “gave Committee of Ministers for the next six one of the founders of the Euronest Mr. Tarasyuk also said that the assembly a written instruction to conclude this agree- months, Foreign Affairs Ministry spokes- Parliamentary Assembly, was elected as a should become an effective parliamentary ment.” He added, “She demanded this man Oleksander Dykusarov told the press co-president of the assembly from the support of the Eastern Partnership and under the threat of Dubyna’s dismissal on May 11. He also reported that a cere- European Parliament. Elections were held contribute to its “practical impact.” He from work.” (Ukrinform) noted, “Over the two years of its exis- Book about Pope John Paul II tence, this initiative has brought some political dividends. The most important KYIV – A book by Archbishop CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS political effect of the Eastern Partnership Mieczyslaw Mokrzytski and Brygida was the clear separation of European Grysiak titled “Tuesdays Loved Most: The TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI (973) 292-9800 x 3040 neighbors [in the East] from the southern Story of Daily Life of Pope John Paul II” or e-mail [email protected] neighbors of Europe under the European was recently presented in Kyiv. This is the Neighborhood Policy (ENP). This trend Ukrainian translation of a book published should only strengthen in future and be in Poland in 2008. Its release was timed to SERVICES PROFESSIONALS reflected in the process of the ENP review. the beatification of Pope John Paul II that The states that have different aspirations occurred on May 1, as well as the 10th and different opportunities in the context anniversary of his apostolic visit to of the potential level of integration into the Ukraine. The book is written in the form of EU require different approaches from the a conversation by Ms. Grysiak, a journalist, EU.” (Ukrinform) and Archbishop Mokrzytski, who for nine years (1996-2005) was secretary of the Court rejects Tymoshenko’s lawsuit pope and was with him from the first morn- KYIV – The Pechersky District Court of ing prayer to the last. He speaks about the Kyiv has rejected a lawsuit filed by pontiff’s daily life, about the things that Batkivschyna Party leader and former moved and amused him, his meetings with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia influential politicians, what books he read, Tymoshenko against the Procurator what songs he sang and other details. “The General’s Office (PGO) for opening a crim- pope was a genius and, at the same time, a inal case on the 2009 gas contracts with simple man: he believed that prayer can Russia’s Gazprom. The news was reported change the fate of the world – that it is a on May 16. In its ruling the court con- means of spreading peace, he paid special firmed that the PGO had lawfully opened attention to the sick and lonely, he was very the case against Ms. Tymoshenko. In con- fond of books – fiction, theological litera- nection with the decision of the Pechersky ture, poetry – and was very hard-working, court, Ms. Tymoshenko said on her person- but also had time to rest – every Tuesday MERCHANDISE al website that this fact proves the “depen- was free from work during the day and dency of courts” and the actual absence of once a month the pope traveled outside of Rome,” the archbishop said. (Ukrinform) Ukrainian Book Store justice. She reaffirmed her intention to appeal to international courts “to prove Theater, movie, ballet, Kazakh monument to nuclear victims Ukrainian folk dancing there that there are political repressions in Ukraine.” Ms. Tymoshenko is charged with PETROPAVLOVSK, Kazakhstan – A 50% off abuse of power and official authority in the groundbreaking ceremony for a monument May 1 – 31, 2011 signing of an agreement for the supply of to victims of nuclear disasters was held in www.ukrainianbookstore.com Russian gas in 2009. (Ukrinform) Kazakhstan’s northern city of Toll Free 1-866-422-4255 Petropavlovsk, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service EP president comments on Ukraine reported on April 27. The chairman of the North Kazakhstan Regional Union of Karpaty Construction Company FOR SALE KYIV – The European Union sees Chornobyl veterans, Yury Loshkaryov, said Ukraine as a state that plays a key role in at the ceremony on April 26 that the monu- All work, large or small: complete home Eastern Europe, said the president of the renovations, bathrooms, basements, ment is dedicated to the victims of the Fully furnished 1BR/1Bath European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, while Chornobyl disaster and the 1.5 million roofs, masinry work, exterior and opening the constituent meeting of the interior painting. Call Vasili Cholak: apartment in Ukrainian Village, Somerset, Kazakh citizens he said were affected by Parliamentary Assembly of the Eastern 718-392-0138; cell 347-515-5437. NJ. Recently renovated, new hardwood nuclear tests in Kazakhstan during the floors,oriental rugs, freshly painted, new Partnership (Euronest). According to May Soviet period. The ceremony was held on flooring in kitchen, flat screen TV in living 4 news reports, Mr. Buzek noted Ukraine’s the 25th anniversary of the Chornobyl OPPORTUNITIES room and regular TV in bedroom, new window significant potential as a member of the nuclear disaster. Mr. Loshkaryov said the treatments. Laundry in same building. European Union’s Eastern Partnership ini- 456 nuclear tests in Kazakhstan over a Fully furnished 78,000 or unfurnished 72,000. tiative. In addition, he expressed hope that 40-year period were the equivalent of 160 Contact at 908-601-4405 the Ukrainian side would help resolve the Chornobyl disasters. Much of the land Earn extra income! Transdniestrian issue, in particular, through The Ukrainian Weekly is looking where the nuclear tests were held is unin- its active participation in the negotiations habitable. Mr. Loshkaryov added that only for advertising sales agents. on this issue in the 5+2 format (Chisinau For additional information contact Run your advertisement here, 430 of the some 2,500 residents of the and Tiraspol as the parties to the conflict, Maria Oscislawski, Advertising Manager, in The Ukrainian Weekly’s north Kazakhstan region who took part in The Ukrainian Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext 3040. Ukraine, Russia and the Organization for CLASSIFIEDS section. Security and Cooperation in Europe as (Continued on page 15) No.21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 15

businessman Dmytro Firtash – in the statu- NEWSBRIEFS... tory capital of Nadra Bank will be 89.97 percent. Nadra Bank began its activity in (Continued from page 14) October 1993 and is currently one of the largest banks in Ukraine. In 2010 the bank the post-Chornobyl disaster clean-up in earned a profit of 4.74 million hrv com- Ukraine are still alive. (RFE/RL) pared to a loss of 1.36 billion hrv in 2009. Plaque in memory of Lech Kaczynski (Ukrinform) With great sorrow we announce that KYIV – A memorial plaque to Polish Mika Newton fourth at Eurovision Harold H. Bochonko President Lech Kaczynski, who tragically KYIV – Ukraine’s representative at the died in a plane crash in Russia near 56th Eurovision Song Contest, Mika died on April 1, 2011, in Woodside, NY. He was predeceased by Smolensk a year ago, was unveiled in the Newton, progressed to the grand final after his loving daughter Katherine Bochonko. city of Khmelnytsky. According to May 11 the second of two semifinals took place in news reports, it was installed on the wall of Dusseldorf Arena on the evening of May Harold H. Bochonko was a devoted husband of Lily, beloved father the St. Anna Church. The unveiling of the 12. Denmark, Bosnia and Herzegovina, of Paula and son-in-law Steve Lockford, cherished grandfather of plaque was attended by the Consul of the Estonia, Sweden, Romania, Slovenia, Republic of Poland in Vinnytsia Krzysztof Jennifer and Christopher. Austria, Ireland, Moldova, Serbia, Harold was a recognized humanitarian for many years of commu- Swiderek, Ambassador of the Polish Sejm Lithuania, Greece, Azerbaijan, Georgia, nity service; a respected member of Rotary International who made Jaroslav Stawinski, deputies of regional Switzerland, Hungary, Finland, Russia and and city councils, and Polish and Ukrainian Iceland all advanced to the final. In the the Ukrainian Gift of Life a financial and physical priority with his wife, delegations. A requiem service was con- grand final on Saturday, May 14, the “Big Lily; former Trustee of Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church; partici- ducted by Bishop Leon Dubrawski of the 5” participants from France, Germany, pant in the Ukrainian American Veterans Post 27; member of the Kamianets-Podilskyi Diocese, who also Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom joined Catholic War Veterans and the American Legion. He also held vari- blessed the plaque. (Ukrinform) the semifinalists. Ms. Newton ultimately ous officer positions on the Ukrainian American Veterans National N.Y. court demands Firtash response won fourth place in the 2011 Eurovision Executive Board. with her song “Angel,” earning 159 points. Funeral liturgy was held Friday, April 8, 2011, at Holy Ghost KYIV – The Southern District Court of Ukraine’s sand artist Ksenia Simonova New York has sent a summons to Dmytro helped the performer present the main idea Ukrainian Catholic Church, followed by interment at Calverton Firtash, co-founder of the Swiss-registered of her song. First prize in the song contest National Cemetery, Calverton, LI, NY. gas trader RosUkrEnergo (RUE), urging went to Eldar Gasimov and Nigar Jamal Eternal memory him to respond to the allegations stated in a from Azerbaijan. As a result, Eurovision lawsuit filed against him by former Prime 2012 will be held in Azerbaijan on May Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko. In 22-26, 2012. Second and third places, accordance with the April 26 document, respectively, were won by Raphel Gualazzi Mr. Firtash was to provide an answer to the of Italy and Eric Saade of Sweden. complaint within 21 days of the serving of (Ukrinform, Ukraine Business Online) the summons to the plaintiff – Ms. Tymoshenko and her representative, Fake Euro-2012 goods seized McCallion & Associates LLP, as well as to KYIV – Ukrainian customs employees the court. The plaintiffs in this lawsuit are seized about 10 batches of counterfeit Ms. Tymoshenko and other former execu- goods with illegal UEFA and Euro-2012 In memory of tives of Ukraine, who wished to remain symbols last year. All of them were confis- anonymous because of pressure from the cated and destroyed, Ukrinform reported Cameron Cook authorities and the likelihood of intimida- on April 27, citing the Delo newspaper. tion and persecution. The defendants in the Yaroslav Ognevyuk, a partner at the Witiuk lawsuit are Mr. Firtash, RosUkrEnergo, and Doubinsky & Osharova Patent and Law 9/30/1992 to 4/3/2011 other unnamed or as yet unknown individu- Agency, said that the amount of goods with als and companies that helped the defen- illegal UEFA and Euro-2012 symbols had Cameron was struck by a drunk driver in Orange County, California dants. Ms. Tymoshenko said that Naftohaz significantly grown last year. Lawyers rep- Saturday shortly before midnight, April 2, 2011. He died of his injuries Ukrainy, by agreement with the Russian resenting the interests of the Union of around 5 a.m. April 3, 2011. gas company Gazprom, lawfully received European Football Associations did not Cameron resided with his parents in Ladera Ranch, California. He 11 billion cubic meters of natural gas, reveal the price of counterfeit goods attended Tesoro High School in Las Flores where he ran cross-country, which earlier belonged to RosUkrEnergo. detained by customs officers. The main played on the soccer team and varsity tennis. In his junior year he trans- According to her, after the victory of Viktor flow of counterfeit goods comes from Asia ferred to and graduated in September 2010 from JSerra Catholic High, San Yanukovych in the presidential elections in and the Middle East. (Ukrinform) Juan Capistrano. At JSerra Cameron was one of the top players on the early 2010, the position of Naftohaz school’s 2010 varsity tennis team. He also helped coach youth tennis clin- reversed its position in the arbitration pro- Ukraine, Lithuania boost bilateral trade ics at the school for children ages 3 to 12. ceedings initiated by RosUkrEnergo in the KYIV – In 2010 the trade turnover During high school, he had been accepted to several four-year universi- Stockholm court. At the same time the ex- between Ukraine and Lithuania increased by ties, but Cameron decided to stay in Orange County to finish his basics at premier noted that associates of Mr. Firtash 50 percent, Prime Ministers Mykola Azarov Saddleback and Irvine Valley colleges and spend more time with his family were appointed to positions in the govern- of Ukraine and Andrius Kubilius of before transferring to a university. ment; in particular, Yurii Boiko was Lithuania said at a meeting in Kyiv, the press Cameron was a loving son, excellent student, fantastic friend, ultimate appointed minister of energy and the coal office of the Ukrainian government reported sports enthusiast, always smiling, always helpful, forever positive, always industry, Serhiy Liovochkin was tapped to on April 20. The two sides called for deepen- saw the good in people. He would’ve made this world a better place. May head the Presidential Administration and ing inter-governmental and interparliamenta- his genuine love and goodness shine down on us all. Valeriy Khoroshkovsky became chief of ry dialogue. “Of course, the mechanism of the Security Service of Ukraine. Ms. He will deeply be missed by: bilateral cooperation – the Intergovernmental Father and Mother – Douglas Cook and Bohdanna Witiuk Tymoshenko argues that the change of gov- Commission, the Interparliamentary ernment and the cancelation of the constitu- Dido – Iwan Witiuk Assembly on Trade-Economic, Scientific Uncle and Aunt – Peter and Marie Witiuk tional reform of 2004 led to the curtailing and Technical Cooperation should be more of the independence of Ukrainian courts, Uncle and Aunt – Andrij Witiuk and Susan P. James actively involved in the development of our Aunt and Uncle – Lois and Charles Stringer which as a result confirmed the ruling of relations,” Mr. Azarov emphasized. The two the Stockholm Arbitration Tribunal Cousins – Anna Witiuk, Jason Witiuk, Charlene Stringer heads of government also discussed the need Cousin – John Witiuk with wife Kristina demanding that Naftohaz return 12.1 bil- to increase mutual trade and hold a joint lion cubic meters of natural gas worth $3.5 Cousin – Rodney Stringer with wife Renee business forum. Lithuania expressed interest Cousin – Don Stringer with wife Charlene billion to RosUkrEnergo. (Interfax- in increasing the supply of electricity from Ukraine) Ukraine and developing the Viking high- A memorial service was held at 11 a.m. at the Mission of San Juan Capistrano on April 15, 2011. Firtash buys controlling stake in bank speed railway project. Messrs. Azarov and Kubilius also focused on the negotiation pro- In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made for a memorial tennis KYIV – Nadra Bank has completed the cess for creation of a free-trade area between plaque installed at JSerra High School at http://www.jserra.org/index.jsp or placement of additional shares worth 3.5 Ukraine and the European Union, where to Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) at http://www.madd.org/donate/ billion hrv, according to a statement posted Lithuania has expressed its support for the on the bank’s website in early May. Ukrainian side. “We want free-trade area “Austrian Centragas Holding AG and talks to be as efficient as possible, and we Nadra Bank signed a contract on the sale of see the rapprochement of Ukraine and the shares, under which 100 percent of the European Union as one of our strategic DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS shares of an additional emission are objectives,” Mr. Kubilius stressed, adding acquired by Centragas Holding AG,” reads that Ukraine and Lithuania have the potential Death announcements should be sent to the Advertising Department the statement. Under the terms of the con- for cooperation. In October 2010, Presidents by e-mail to [email protected] or by fax to 973-644-9510. tract, the payment of shares is made at the Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine and Dalia Deadline: Tuesday noon before the newspaper’s date of issue. market price corresponding to the nominal Grybauskaite of Lithuania signed the road value of shares. The stake of Centragas map for strategic partnership between the For further information call 973-292-9800, ext. 3040. Holding – which is controlled by Ukrainian two countries for 2011-2012. (Ukrinform) 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 No. 21 No.21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 17 Kolisnyk Fund at CIUS to support literary publications EDMONTON, Alberta – In March of this year lections of humorous pieces: “Naikrashchi Khloptsi z Roman Kolisnyk of Toronto established the Roman and Dyviziї” (The Best Boys from the Division, 1993) and Halia Kolisnyk Endowment Fund at the Canadian “Vid Adama do Leonida II” (From Adam to Leonid II, Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) with a donation 1996); reports: “O Ukraїno, O Liuba Nenko” (O of $15,000. The purpose of the fund is to support Ukraine, O Dear Mother) and “O Ukraїno, O Bidna English and French translations and publications (print Nenko” (O Ukraine, O Poor Mother); memoirs and and electronic) of Ukrainian literary works, literary observations: “Dovkola Svitu” (Around the World, memoirs, diaries, and correspondence of Ukrainian- 1982); speeches: “Vid Zїzdu do Zїzdu, Vid Yuvileyu do Canadian and other diaspora authors. Yuvileyu” (From Congress to Congress, From Devoted to Ukrainian literature and aware of its sig- Anniversary to Anniversary, 2001); memoirs: “Maizhe, nificance for a world audience, Mr. Kolisnyk has also Ale ne Zovsim” (Almost, But Not Quite, 2002); war made a bequest that will make it possible to accomplish memoirs: “Masheruyut Dobrovoltsi” (The Volunteers the fund’s objectives more effectively in the future. are Marching, 2003); the novel “Ostannii Postril” (The Mr. Kolisnyk belongs to a generation of Ukrainian Last Shot, 1989); the story “Erika” (2009); and a trans- emigrants who, faced with the horrors of war and lation of selections from John Steinbeck’s “Russian Communist terror, had no choice other than to fight Journal” (2010). back and then leave their homeland. His persistence, Mr. Kolisnyk also wrote poetry and a number of friendliness and drive for self-improvement through works in English. He edited the journal Koordynator for education and creative work helped him overcome the Ukrainian Cooperative Council of Canada (1985- many difficulties and gain recognition as a writer, trans- 1990) and the veterans’ journal Visti Kombatanta lator, publicist, editor, scholar and community activist. (Veterans’ News from 2000). Mr. Kolisnyk was born in 1923 in Tovstenke (pres- Mr. Kolisnyk translated “Sie wollten die Freiheit” ent-day Chortkiv raion in the Ternopil Oblast). His (They Wanted Freedom) by Wolf-Dietrich Heike, the father, Semen, worked in Canada from 1913 to 1921, head of the operations section of the Galician Division which helped the family develop a successful business staff, with his own detailed commentary. The book upon his return. The Kolisnyks had high regard for edu- appeared under the title “Ukrayinska dyviziya cation and literature (his father wrote poems), which ‘Halychyna’” in 1970. Given the dearth of information doubtless influenced Roman Kolisnyk. and biased viewpoints pertaining to this subject, Mr. After graduating from the Chortkiv secondary Kolisnyk wrote and published the documentary study school, Roman joined the Galicia Division with his Halia and Roman Kolisnyk “Viiskova Uprava ta Ukrayinska Dyviziya ‘Halychyna’” whole class. His elder brother, Antin, died fighting in (The Military Administration and the Ukrainian the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Roman Kolisnyk critic. Mrs. Kolisnyk passed away in 2007. Galician Division, 1990; second edition 2009), based attained the rank of ensign, and the fortunes of war took In Canada, Mr. Kolisnyk worked as an administrator predominantly on minutes of meetings of the military him to Feldbach, Austria, in the American zone of occu- of the newspapers Vilne Slovo (Free Word) and Novyi administration. He also helped other researchers in the pation. Shliakh (New Pathway), where he was also a colum- field. After gaining his freedom in 1947 Mr. Kolisnyk nist. He continued his studies, obtaining a diploma in Overall, Mr. Kolisnyk has more than 800 literary and lived in Munich, a major center of Ukrainian emigrant management accounting from McMaster University. He scholarly works to his credit. life with a large number of political parties, literary and then worked in the Ontario provincial government, A generous man and a community activist, Mr. art groups and publications. There he enrolled in the from which he retired as a financial manager. Kolisnyk has belonged to various organizations, Ukrainian higher school of economics and worked for His humorous stories, columns, reports and articles worked with the Jewish-Ukrainian Society, and sup- the newspaper Ukraïnska Trybuna (Ukrainian Tribune), appeared in various newspapers and magazines in ported dissidents and democratic change in Ukraine. He for which he began writing reports. Canada, the United States and other countries of the is a member of the National Writers’ Union of Ukraine In 1949 Mr. Kolisnyk moved to Australia to work in diaspora, as well as in Ukraine after it became indepen- and the recipient of numerous awards. the forestry sector on a two-year government contract. dent. The Ternopil Regional Museum houses his personal In 1957 he settled in Canada, where he was glad to In 1986 Mr. Kolisnyk published his first collection of archive (1,500 items), including his correspondence reunite with friends and relatives. In 1960 he married humorous stories, “Tiazhko Buty Politychnym with prominent scholars, writers and politicians from Halia Soltykevych, the daughter of an Orthodox priest Emigrantom” (It Is Hard to Be a Political Emigrant) Ukraine and the diaspora. The most important items in from Konotop. She became his first and most exacting under the pen name Walter Cap. It was followed by col- this collection will be soon published by the museum.

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Film documents lingering effects The commemorative evening concluded with the pre- miere screening of the documentary film “Block Four: Chornobyl 2011” by student filmmaker Julian Hayda and doctoral student the Rev. Myron Panchuk. Introduced by Bill Kurtis, award-winning broadcast journalist and news anchor, the film highlighted key events from the accident in 1986 to the current state of affairs. Most of all, the 50-minute film focused on indi- vidual stories of the Chornobyl survivors – both the elderly pensioners who chose to return to their ancestral villages and the children and grandchildren of refugees from the “Zone of Alienation.” Recalling his initial visit to Chornobyl soon after the explosion, Mr. Kurtis spoke of the peaceful fields of wheat, so similar to the ones in Kansas, where he grew up, and of the peasant women who reminded him of his Ukrainian grandmother. Prypiat, the abandoned and disintegrating city near the Chornobyl power plant, was “an eerie monument of what happened and what could happen,” said Mr. Kurtis. Walter Tun Most of all, he remembered aerial photos of the graphite fire and core meltdown at reactor No. 4 in Chornobyl. Dr. Daniel Hryhorczuk (second from left) receives award from Kyiv Committee of Chicago Sister Cities When he saw a photo of Fukushima taken from above, International with him (from left are: Vera Eliashevsky, chair, Kyiv Committee of Chicago Sister Cities he concluded “that’s Chornobyl.” International; Marta Farion, member, Kyiv Executive Committee, Chicago Sister Cities International; and The commemorative evening was made possible by Leroy Allala, executive director, Chicago Sister Cities International. the generous financial support of Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union and the financial, moral Recent photos from Chornobyl displayed in the con- WBEZ, a Chicago public radio station, provided addi- and operational support of the following host organiza- ference halls were taken by amateur photographer Luba tional coverage of the Chornobyl anniversary commemo- tions: Kyiv Committee of Chicago Sister Cities Markewycz, who also appeared in the documentary. As ration in a three-part series on its global affairs program International, Ukrainian Medical Association of North a continuation of the 25th anniversary commemoration “Worldview,” which featured interviews with Dr. America – Illinois Branch, Center for Global Health, UIC of the Chornobyl disaster, the photo collection will be Shcherbak, filmmakers Mr. Hayda and the Rev. Panchuk, College of Medicine, Ukrainian Congress Committee of exhibited at the Chicago Pedway Corridor, a six-mile and two former residents of Kyiv at the time of the nucle- America – Illinois Branch, and the Chicago Business and complex of indoor pedestrian walkways, between May ar accident. Podcasts of the programs are available at Professional Group. 24 and July 14. http://www.wbez.org/worldview (April 26, 27, 28). 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 No. 21

Martial arts • Georgii Zantaraia was declared the events, and Petriv won silver and bronze Championship in Pilsen, the Czech Athlete of the Month in Ukraine for April in these same events. Avramenko won Republic, on July 5-9 and an internation- • Iryna Kindzerska (+78 kg) and by Ukraine’s Olympic Committee on gold in the women’s running target mixed al championship in London. Stanislav Bondarenko (+100 kg) won May 5. Zantaraia won the gold medal in shooting event and silver in the women’s Archery third place at the Judo Grand Prix, held the 60 kg division at the European Judo air rifle moving target event. Kaminska on May 6-8 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Artem Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, held won bronze in the women’s 10-meter air Viktor Ruban won third place in the Vasylenko (81 kg) tied with Leandro on April 21-24, and in the 66 kg division pistol event. men’s recurve event at the 13th European Guilheiro of Brazil for third place. The in the team classification. This was Indoor Archery Championship in Camrils, tournament was hosted by the Zantaraia’s second award from the • Olena Kostevych and Oleg Taragona, Spain, on March 21-27. Olga International Judo Federation and Olympic Committee of Ukraine; his first Omelchuk won medals at the Buliga won gold in the women’s division attracted hundreds of competitors. award was presented in August 2009. International Shooting Sport Federation junior recurve event, and Ihor Kardash Vitali Dubrova, his coach, was named Rifle and Pistol World Cup on April 7-15 won silver in the compound junior men’s • Ukraine’s men’s team won the best coach for April 2011. in Changwon, South Korea. In the event. In team competition, Ukraine’s European Judo Championship in 10-meter air pistol event, Kostevych won men’s team (Ruban, Markiyan Ivashko Istanbul, Turkey, on April 21-24. This • Artem Avtohanov and Ihor Hryhoriev silver in the women’s division, and and Yuriy Havelko) won gold in the was the first time Ukraine, as a team, won first place in the light contact event Omelchuk won bronze in the men’s divi- men’s recurve team event, and Ukraine’s has won since the tournament began in at the European Open Kempo-Karate and sion. Ukraine tied with France and Korea women’s team (Tetyana Dorokhova, 1951, and as debutants in the finals. Kobudo Championship held in Kharkiv, for ninth place in the medal standings. Viktoriya Koval and Tetyana Berezhna) Gold medal winners were: Georgii Ukraine, on April 3-5. Avtohanov and The tournament attracted shooters from won silver in the recurve team event. Zantaraia, Serhiy Drebot (66 kg), Hryhoriev won second and third place, 18 countries. Ukraine’s junior men’s team (Yevhen Volodymyr Soroka (73 kg), Artem respectively, in the kempo-kumite com- Marchenko, Heorhiy Ivanytskyy and Vasylenko, Viktor Savinov (81 kg), petition. The two Ukrainians qualified for • Olena Kostevych won gold in the Valentyn Sobko) won the bronze medal in Valentyn Grekov, Roman Gontyuk (90 the World Kempo-Karate and Kobudo women’s 25-meter pistol event and a the recurve event. Ukraine’s junior wom- kg), Stanislav Bondarenko and Artem Championship in Baku, Azerbaijan, to be bronze medal in the women’s 10-meter en’s team (Lidia Sichenikova, Buliga and Bloshenko (+90 kg). Ukraine defeated held on June 25-26. Other areas of com- air pistol event at the International Anastasia Pavlova) won gold in the France in the final 3-2, with Germany petition included kata, kata kobudo, syn- Shooting Sport Federation Rifle, Pistol recurve team event. Ukraine’s junior tied with Georgia for third place. chronized kata, self-defense, self-defense and Shotgun World Cup in Sydney, men’s team (Vladyslav Bolshakov, Ukraine’s women’s team tied for third weapon, semi-contact, Chikara Kurabe Australia, on March 21-April 1. Oleg Mykhaylo Bozhko and Ihor Kardash) place with Turkey, with France winning and a demonstration program. The com- Omelchuk won a silver medal in men’s won bronze in the compound team event. first place and Germany in second. petition attracted 600 competitors from 10-meter air pistol and Darya Tykhova In the medal standings, Ukraine finished Ukraine’s women’s team comprised: 16 countries. won bronze in the women’s 10-meter air in third place with four individual and rifle event. Marria Buiok (52 kg), Tetiana Levytska Shooting five team medals. (57 kg), Oksana Dedenko (63 kg), Pentathlon Wrestling Nataliya Smal (70 kg) and Iryna • Roman Bondaruk, Galina Kindzerska (+70 kg). In individual Avramenko, Oleksandr Petriv and Pavlo Tymoshenko won the silver Ukraine won 10 medals at the competition Georgii Zantaraia won the Oksana Kaminska won medals at the medal at the 2011 Modern Pentathlon European Wrestling Championship on only medal for Ukraine, winning gold 42nd Grand Prix of Liberation, an inter- World Cup (third stage) in May 29-April 3 in Dortmund, Germany. after he defeated Betkil Shukvani of national shooting competition held in Szazhalombatta, Hungary, on May 5. Collecting four gold medals for Ukraine Gerogia in the 60 kg division. Ukraine Plzen, the Czech Republic, on May 4-8. The Ukrainian scored 5,804 points, just were: Vasyl Rachyba (84 kg) in men’s finished in ninth place in individual Bondaruk won first place in the men’s 20 points behind the winner of the com- Greco-Roman, and Yulia Blahinya (51 competition. 25-meter small-caliber and large-caliber petition, David Svoboda of the Czech kg), Yulia OStapchuk (63 kg) and Republic. Kateryna Burmisrova (72 kg) in women’s Handball freestyle. Silver medalists included Vyugar Ragymov (55 kg) in Greco- Ukraine defeated Portugal 29-26 Roman, and Khrystyna Daranutsa (48 kg) (9-13) in its opening game in the Shield and Alina Makhynia (67 kg) in women’s of Town Cheb, the Czech Republic, on freestyle. Winning bronze for Ukraine April 21-24. Ukraine lost to Belarus were Vasyl Fedoryshyn (60 kg) and Pavlo 24-31 (11-16), and Ukraine defeated the Olinyk (96 kg) in men’s freestyle, and hosts 37-18 (10-15). Ukraine won the Hanna Vasylenko (59 kg) in women’s tournament with 90.75 points. freestyle. Ukraine’s women’s team won Swimming first place in women’s freestyle team classification. Oksana Serikova won gold in women’s Paddlesport 50-meter freestyle event, beating Russia’s Sevtlana Fedulova by .04 seconds to fin- Inna Osypenko-Radomska won the ish with a time of 25.45 seconds at the 2010 Athlete of the Year at a ceremony Moscow Open Water Swimming held at the Ukraina Palace in Kyiv on Championship held near the Russian cap- March 30. Osypenko-Radomska won ital on April 22. four medals at the International Canoe Weightlifting Federation Canoe Sprint Championships, with a gold (500-meters, 2010), two sil- • Yulia Paratova (58 kg) and Ihor vers (200-meters, 2010; 1,000-meters, Shimechko (+105 kg) won silver medals 2003), and a bronze (1,000-meters, at the European Weightlifting 2001). Championship held in Kazan, Russia, on Athletics April 8-17. Paratova lifted 92 kg in the snatch and 108 kg in the clean and jerk, Hanna Hatsko won the gold medal in for a total of 200 kg. Shimechko lifted the women’s javelin throw at the 11th 195 kg in the snatch and 217 kg in the European Cup Winter Throwing clean and jerk, for a total of 412 kg. This Championships held in Sofia, Bulgaria, was the 90th anniversary tournament for on March 19-20. Oleksiy Sikorsky won men and the 24th anniversary tournament bronze in the men’s hammer throw. In the for women. U23 division, Mykyta Nesterenko won a gold medal in the men’s discus throw, • The Very Rev. Vasyl Kovaliov, a Vira Rebryk won gold in the women’s 63-year-old priest from Holy Trinity javelin throws; Dmytro Kosynsky won Ukrainian Orthodox Church in silver in the javelin throw, Dmytro Zaporizhia, Ukraine, won a powerlifting Savytsky won silver in the men’s shotput competition with a total of 375 kg in a event; and Andriy Martyniuk won the power triathlon and a 95 kg press in bronze medal in the men’s hammer Poltava on February 22-28. Father throw. In the senior division, Oleksandr Kovaliov was invited to compete at the Pyatnytsya won silver in the javelin European Masters Powerlifting throw.

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COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Ukrainian Language Society Selfreliance Association prepares holds its annual picnic Easter baskets for homebound seniors

The Ukrainian Language Society table at the bazaar held in the Oseredok of Selfreliance Association members with Easter baskets for homebound seniors. North Port, Fla. NEW YORK – As part of its mission The Selfreliance Association maintains VENICE, Fla. – The annual picnic of Ukrainian bazaars where Prosvita publica- to serve the needs of Ukrainian older a list of seniors who are frail and in need the Ukranian Language Society (ULS) in tions are displayed. In December 2010 a adults of the Lower East Side community, of social service intervention, and main- Florida took place on April 6 in Venice. very informative meeting was organized members of the Selfreliance Association tains frequent contact with them, either Thirty-five members attended and in a for Dr. Ihor Pasichnyk and Eduard of American Ukrainians (New York by telephone or in person. The goal is to pleasant atmosphere heard the annual Balashov of Ostroh Academy where sup- branch), prepared Easter baskets for prevent institutional care. report given by ULS President Vira porters of Ostroh were awarded certificates homebound seniors. To that end, the association receives Bodnaruk. of recognition. The Rev. Leo Goldade of St. George assistance from senior volunteers, who A moment of silence was observed in The financial report was read by Dr. Ukrainian Catholic Church blessed the tra- are called “Partners,” who also provide memory of the departed members Sofia Bohdan Bodnaruk. He thanked everyone ditional foods. The volunteers visited the telephone reassurance and home visits to Barusevych, Anna Motyka and Dr. present for their generous support and Bohdan Tkachuk, longtime supporter of especially the following benefactors: the homes of those seniors who were unable their peers. They are an invaluable asset ULS. Heritage Foundation of Chicago (Dr. to have their baskets blessed in church. to the elderly and to the program. Prof. Bodnaruk outlined the financial Julian Kulas), Selfreliance Foundation of help given to the regional centers of the Chicago (Oresta Fedyniak), Demus Prosvita Society in Ukraine, especially the Charitable Foundation (Andrew Demus), southern and eastern oblasts, which often Laryssa Stachniw, Dr. Peter Popowich, are overlooked by the Ukrainian diaspora. Nellia and Bohdan Lechman, Wiacheslaw Special attention was given to requests Cetenko, and Vira and Bohdan Bodnaruk. for publishing Ukrainian children’s books A brief slide presentation of meetings and books on Ukrainian language, litera- with Prosvita members in most of the ture, history and culture. At the present regions of Ukraine followed. Also pre- time Ukrainian-language publications and sented was a display of some of the pub- Ukrainian schools are suffering not only lications that were partially funded by from neglect on the part of the govern- ULS. Members responded with generous ment, but from outright pressure to close donations for further support of Prosvita them down, the ULS president pointed out. projects. The ULS also gives scholarships to A picnic lunch prepared by Slava and needy students who study Ukrainian lan- Roman Maluk followed, with appetizers guage, literature or history at the National and dessert prepared by Halia Lisnyczyj, University of Ostroh Academy or univer- Odarka Horbachewska, Nancy Wozny, sities in Kyiv and Lviv, Prof. Bodnaruk Tamara Weremijenko, Halia Korol, added. Marussia Hajovy, Olia Tatarko and Anna Members of the ULS take an active part Homick. in community events such as “Ukrainian For more information, or to join the Days” (Chicago), “Den Soyuzianky” ULS, readers may write to: Ukrainian (Chicago), Holodomor commemorations, Language Society, 425 Ridge Ave., Shevchenko commemorations, and Clarendon Hills, IL 60514.

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Ihor Slabicky The Song and Dance Ensemble of Radio Banduristan (SDERB) (Ron Lawrence, Asa Hrim with Olenka Dolak on cello during the Radio Banduristan program at the Horvitz, Mike Andrec and Julian Kytasty) at the Ukrainian Institute of America. Ukrainian Institute of America. Radio Banduristan presents another “remote broadcast” in NYC

by Ihor Slabicky doumbek playing emphasized the horse pawing at the ground, while Mr. Kytasty’s voice soared over the com- NEW YORK ­– Another “remote broadcast” by Radio plex rhythm. Banduristan International took place on Friday, February “Up rose the sun…,” the opening lines of section 17 in 25, this time at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New “Mazeppa,” were read by Prof. Motyl. The SDERB pro- York City. Presented as a “Cabaret Evening,” the broad- vided the swirling musical background for the scene in cast was hosted by author Alexander Motyl. It showcased which Mazepa’s horse has reached the milling herd of a variety of current works from musicians and performers wild horses and, with Mazepa still tied to the horses back, of the New York Ukrainian music scene. passes away. That set the right mood for “Ta Mushu Ya Appearing that evening was the Song and Dance Pomerty,” sung by Mr. Kytasty and accompanied by Ms. Ensemble of Radio Banduristan (SDERB), featuring ban- Horwitz on harmonium. Usually played on a lira, the har- durist Julian Kytasty, Michael Andrec on bandura and monium added a mellower timbre to this last song of a doumbek, Ron Lawrence on viola, and Asa Horvitz on dying man. electric guitar and harmonium. Hrim appeared next, performing a set that featured Performing in an unplugged setting was the band Hrim, mostly acoustic versions of songs from their new release. consisting of Roman Palylyk, Peter Kolinsky, Peter Their first selection was “Pora,” made popular by Green Dobrenko and Will Wyatt, with Andrij Stasiw on piano Jolly during the Orange Revolution. Hearing this and cellist Olenka Dolak. Rounding out the list of per- “unplugged” version was a treat. With their voices dream- formers was special guest Katie Pawluk, a renowned vio- Special guest Katie Pawluk performs during the ily blending on the chorus, this arrangement was indeed linist, pianist and filmmaker. Radio Banduristan program. more mellifluent than the original. For “Oy Chyi to Kin Plucking the notes of the Radio Banduristan theme out Stoyit,” Hrim was joined by Ms. Dolak, her cello blending of the ether, the SDERB launched into a lively “Hey when presented in this “experimental” manner. Switching with the band’s vocals and adding a bottom note that was Numo Khloptsi.” After an introduction of the performers to the viola, she performed the Bulgarian melody “Slunce a foundation for them to sound off of. by Prof. Motyl, Mr. Kytasty talked about Radio Gre,” followed by a Bukovinian dance tune. With her For their set closer, they performed “Zalyshyvsia,” an Banduristan and its mission to explore new musical hori- unique presentation that seemed to emphasize the beat and original composition by Petro Stasiw with music by zons. With that in mind, the SDERB launched into rhythm rather than the melody, it was a treat to hear these Andrij Stasiw. On this song of unrequited love, Mr. Stasiw “Chypurlyka,” a song that offered each musician the two songs. on piano and Ms. Dolak on cello traded sensitive solos opportunity to sinuously solo over the slow and sensuous Returning to the piano, she sang her composition Turkish melody. “Renee,” which notes, “sunny weather and still the rainy that underscored the melancholy of the words sung by the With a prologue by Mr. Lawrence on viola, the SDERB days appear.” Taking up her violin, she performed a lively vocalist. The receptive audience responded with long and played “Oy Zaishov Misiats, ta i Zaishov Ya z Nym.” medley of Ukrainian dance songs, again emphasizing the appreciative rounds of applause. Featured were Ms. Horvitz and Julian Kytasty on vocals, beat and rhythm, rather than the melody – a new way of With Mr. Kytasty on bandura leading the way, the each intricately interweaving melody lines throughout this hearing familiar melodies. At the close of her set, Ms. SDERB performed a lively dance melody. Mr. Andrec on song about a young man visiting his beloved. Pawluk was greeted with rousing applause from the doumbek and Mr. Lawrence on viola added a Balkan feel With the song finished, a telephone call was received appreciative audience. to the melody. Prof. Motyl then invited the SDERB to per- from someone claiming to be Ukraine’s Minister of The SDERB started playing “Vziav By Ya Banduru,” form the “Kyivskyi Waltz.” Just as they started playing, Science, Education, Youth and Sports Dmytro Tabachnyk, which unfortunately was interrupted by another telephone the telephone rang – the caller claimed to be Viktor who apparently had been listening to the broadcast and call from the minister. Prof. Motyl relayed that the minis- Yanukovych. In his conversation, he discussed the prob- felt that he had to weigh in on the proceedings. ter wanted the amount of Ukrainian cultural content be lems he was having learning to spell in English, finally Fortunately, Prof. Motyl took the call and was able to set limited to just five minutes and 20 songs. Mr. Andrec asking Prof. Motyl how to spell “a.” The SDERB resumed the matters straight. responded that he had recently composed just such a playing the waltz, but now going slightly more and more As the SDERB began playing an improvisational piece, work. Starting off on his bandura, he was joined by Mr. off-kilter with each chorus, kaleidoscopically reflecting Prof. Motyl read section 12 of Lord Byron’s epic poem Lawrence on viola, and with each taking turns soloing and the conversation that had just occurred. “Mazeppa.” Led by Mr. Kytasty, the music provided an sharing duos, they performed “24 Ukrainian Songs in 5 With his closing statements, Prof. Motyl invited the appropriately dark and mysterious background to the Minutes.” Listening to them, just as one almost figured audience to return for the next remote broadcast of Radio scene from the epic poem where Ivan Mazepa, tied to the out which song they were playing, they would start the Banduristan International, at which could expect more back of a wild horse, nears the wild wood. next one, leaving one guessing if they had indeed played innovative and exciting musical works. Ms. Pawluk, who had just finished directing her first what one thought they did. Readers who missed this broadcast of the Radio feature film “A Day in the Wife,” appeared next, perform- Joined by Ms. Horvitz on harmonium and vocals, Mr. Banduristan program, are welcome to peruse the Radio ing several of her compositions. Her first piece, “The Lawrence on viola, and Mr. Andrec on doumbek, Mr. Banduristan International website at radiobanduristan. Promise of Summer,” was originally written for all elec- Kytasty sang “Oy u Poli, Dva Dubka.” In this song about com. There, they can listen to excerpts from previous per- tronic instruments. Singing and playing it on the grand three horses enjoying a field of fresh clover, the harmoni- formances, watch selected videos and look up a calendar piano, she showed how introspective the song can be um and viola added a tension, Mr. Andrec’s percussive of upcoming events.

ment would be erected anyway. Along the way, the trans- On May 3 of this year, to mark World Press Freedom port was detained near the Socialist Party offices, where Day, the Institute for Mass Information and the Kyiv Turning the pages back... members were questioned about their plans for the memori- Independent Media Trade Union announced their list of (Continued from page 6) al. At the monument site, state militia officials told the Enemies of the Press for 2010. President Viktor group it was performing an illegal operation by installing Yanukovych tops the list of 23, followed by Prime An initial obstacle was the refusal of the local state-run the monument on public property without a permit. Several Minister Mykola Azarov. Third place is held by tombstone shop to accept the work with the explanation national deputies invoked their immunity from criminal Volodymyr Storozhenko, head of the Central Department that it had no stone on hand, explained Mr. Lutsenko. So a prosecution and said the erection of the monument was their of Housing of the Kyiv City State Administration. Ukraine private stonemason was retained. On May 19, 2001, after responsibility, and the law enforcement officials relented. is listed in 131st place in the 2010 Press Freedom Index, the stone had already been inscribed, vandals entered the The same day the monument disappeared, state militia published by Reporters Without Borders on October 20, stonemason’s yard and damaged several burial markers, reported they had found the monument in a wooded area 2010, which ranked 178 countries. including the memorial, which was cracked in half. near the banks of the Dnipro River, not far from the city Source: “Memorial to slain journalists disappears,” by The opposition group decided that the damaged monu- center and would return the property to its owners. Roman Woronowycz, The Ukrainian Weekly, May 27, 2001. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 No. 21

the two filmmakers secretly applied for Ukraine’s 200,000-plus police force for Investors sue... and received a copyright for “Holodomor: Hunger-striking... much of the Orange era – declared a hun- Ukraine’s Genocide.” ger strike on April 22 after a Kyiv appel- (Continued from page 4) (Continued from page 1) Ms. Tomkiw, in her statement to The late court ruled the prior day to extend his Weekly, said: “Late in 2009, Luba Keske incarceration by five weeks. Mr. Lutsenko now, when our film is nearly completed, and Nestor Popowych presented an agree- “From a purely Christian and human announced on May 5 that he would no lon- fellow Ukrainians whom we trusted and ment to Leigh and Tomkiw stating that viewpoint, I want to ask you to stop your ger accept forced feedings. who said they initially wanted to help us as they also have ownership rights in the hunger strike because it’s not gaining the “Starvation is the last chance to push volunteers, are now suing us and thwarting Holodomor film. Leigh and Tomkiw appropriate response from the govern- the case forward because legal methods our efforts and stopping our film from mov- refused to sign as Keske and Popowych ment,” said Cardinal Lubomyr Husar of are exhausted,” said an April 22 statement ing forward. This will indefinitely delay the always claimed they were aware they were the Ukrainian Catholic Church. released by the People’s Self-Defense “Your sacrifice is supposed to be a pow- release of the movie that should be the pri- volunteers helping and they were not party, which Mr. Lutsenko chairs. erful means of awakening, but unfortu- mary focus of all who sincerely care about involved in any creative process in the Public reaction to the hunger strike was nately the spiritual atmosphere in which Holodomor. …” making of the film.” In January 2010, she relatively indifferent until May 16, when we live doesn’t offer much hope for this. As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, said, the Keskes and Mr. Popowych Soviet-era dissident Lev Lukianenko and But life is at stake. It’s necessary to live in Mmes. Keske and Dallas and several other retained an attorney “and for over a year Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian your case in order to hope for victory,” he Ukrainians said they put up personal funds threatened to sue ‘Holodomor: Ukraine’s Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate said in an open letter. toward the making of the movie; donations Genocide’ film and Tomkiw and Leigh, released a statement pleading with Mr. Mr. Lutsenko, 46, explained when are said to have come to the film’s produc- demanding ownership rights in the film.” Lutsenko to stop starving himself. declaring the hunger strike that all his legal ers in the amount of $175,000. “Despite As noted by the Courthouse News Other cultural leaders joining the cam- channels were exhausted and he had no numerous alleged promises and the inter- Service, Ms. Dallas is a Holodomor survi- paign to convince him to stop include writ- other way to influence the government to est of high-ranking Ukrainian politicians vor, Mrs. Keske is the daughter of a ers Ivan Drach, Svitlana Povaliayeva and release him until the start of his corruption and others, the plaintiffs say they could Holodomor survivor, while Messrs. Keske Vasyl Shkliar, publisher Ivan Malkovych never get the filmmakers to give them a and Popowych provided historical back- trial. He has been imprisoned ever since his arrest on December 26, 2010. and rockers Foma and Maria Burmaka. screening,” the publication reported. ground and connections to the Ukrainian Yet, no widespread protests have been The plaintiffs went to Los Angeles community. Observers of the political scene in Ukraine believe Lutsenko’s prosecution is launched. The lack of public sympathy can Superior Court on April 25 to demand an “The plaintiffs claim they ‘vouched for political persecution because the adminis- be attributed to the Orange government, accounting of the money and repayment. the honesty, integrity, industry experience, tration of Viktor Yanukovych is alleged to including Mr. Lutsenko, failing to pursue The plaintiffs also allege that the fund-rais- and good character’ of Leigh and Tomkiw be rife with corruption yet criminal charg- reforms and disappointing their supporters, ing for the film amounted to fraud. within the Ukrainian community, and even es have not been pursued against sponsors even allegedly indulging in corruption Regarding the funds raised for the film, rallied for donations from Ukrainian of the Party of Regions, its members, or themselves, Mr. Lozowy said. Ms. Tomkiw said: “The plaintiffs claim churches, communities and citizens across Meanwhile the Yanukovych administra- the country to support the film,” the news officials in the current government. that they themselves singlehandedly There is corruption in the Yanukovych tion hasn’t even blinked. Throughout the caused to be donated and/or loaned to the service reported. hunger strike, prosecutors have insisted Furthermore, the Courthouse News administration “from the Kharkiv agree- Holodomor film an excess of $175,000. ments to Chinese buckwheat, from utility Mr. Lutsenko is healthy, dismissing reports This is exaggerated. Donations for the film Service reported that the plaintiffs say the that he is ailing. filmmakers promised to screen the unfin- prices to the notorious Mezhyhiria,” wrote were raised by numerous people in the journalist Serhii Rakhmanin in the May 14 On May 17 prosecutors transferred Mr. Ukrainian diaspora… and never came ished documentary in Ukraine to coincide Lutsenko’s case to the Kyiv Pechersk with the 75th anniversary of the issue of the newspaper Dzerkalo Tyzhnia. close to that amount.” “The scale of decorating the presidential District Court for the launch of his trial on Ultimately, however, what is at stake is Holodomor in 2008, but the filmmakers charges of misappropriating state property reneged. The film was shown in Ukraine a ‘dacha’ [Mezhyhiria] is even beginning to ownership. The plaintiffs are seeking a frighten Viktor Fedorovych’s when allegedly hiring his driver in viola- judgment that that would deem the defen- year later, but the filmmakers did not tion of state requirements and arranging an attend the screening. [Yanukovych’s] entourage. If that’s not dants to not be the sole owners of the corruption and abuse, then what is? A one- apartment and pension payments for him. film’s copyright. According to Ms. Keske, – compiled by Roma Hadzewycz room apartment that was allegedly illegal- He and his driver were charged with ly received by Lutsenko’s driver?” stealing state property worth $45,000, as In a note read to reporters by Ms. well as abusing authority and using false documents. Mr. Lutsenko was also membership, the Yanukovych administra- Lutsenko on May 19, her imprisoned hus- band pointed out that Procurator General charged with groundlessly extending the Eurasia, including Ukraine... tion has yet to convince either Brussels or term for tracking a suspect in the investi- Washington that it is serious about want- of Ukraine Viktor Pshonka had allowed (Continued from page 6) the release of an arrested deputy of the gation into the poisoning of former ing to join the EU. Western leaders and President Viktor Yushchenko, or what ambassadors in Kyiv complain in private Kyiv City Council, Denys Komarnytskyi, display even greater concern – about dem- would otherwise be a procedural viola- about brazen lying by Ukrainian leaders – widely believed to have been involved in ocratic backsliding, corruption and lack of tion he committed as Ukraine’s top police as seen in the last few weeks by massive real estate heists. “Lutsenko rule of law, as these certainly limit rela- didn’t steal half of Kyiv, but his arrest is official. Presidential Administration chief Serhiy Ms. Lutsenko warned on May 17 that tions from reaching their potential.” Lyovochkin, who claimed that U.S. sena- unchangeable in the view of the After all, the U.S. has – and will con- Procurator General of Ukraine,” Mr. her husband was beginning to suffer tors visiting Kyiv had said positive things irreparable damage to his body as a result tinue to be – the strongest Western sup- to him about the health of Ukraine’s Lutsenko said in his May 19 note. porter of Ukraine’s independence, territo- It’s also widely believed that the of his hunger strike. Journalists aren’t democracy – a statement that had to be allowed to view or photograph her hus- rial integrity, energy independence and corrected by the U.S. Embassy. Yanukovych administration will imprison democracy. In addition, the greatest num- the former internal affairs minister as band, who’s been guarded by as many as Mr. Yanukovych and the Party of 20 law enforcement officers. ber of Ukraine experts and supporters in Regions seem to believe they can build a revenge for the incarceration of Borys any Western capital city are to be found in Kolesnikov – now the nation’s infrastruc- She also has been forbidden to photo- “Putinist” system in Ukraine and continue graph her emaciated husband, who has Washington. to hoodwink Washington and Brussels ture minister – for about a month in 2005 Indeed, since September-October of for his alleged extortion threats against a lost 20 kilograms (44 pounds) in weight. into believing that they aim to join the Such photographs would put an end to last year the U.S. has been a strong critic EU. Disbelief in Ukraine’s declared goals Donetsk businessman. prosecutors’ claims that her husband’s of democratic regression in Ukraine and leads to continued Ukraine fatigue in the Mr. Lutsenko resigned as internal affairs health is stable. this will not change no matter how much West, and the main attention Ukraine now minister in March 2010 when a new par- Ms. Lutsenko’s frequently photo- the Yanukovych administration seeks to receives in Washington is over regression liamentary coalition was formed with graphed tears haven’t found sympathy “bribe” Washington to turn a blind eye by in democracy as seen in a new Freedom Mykola Azarov as prime minister. among high-ranking officials. handing over highly enriched uranium. House report, “Sounding the Alarm: “His mistake was to think that the “It’s a hard-core crowd, and it won’t Ukraine is allegedly now seeking only Protecting Democracy in Ukraine” (www. ‘Donetskys’ would leave him alone,” said Ivan Lozowy, president of the Institute of take a radical diet to affect them,” Mr. EU membership, and thus the Obama freedomhouse.org/uploads/special_ Statehood and Democracy in Kyiv. Lozowy said of the government of Prime administration has stepped back to permit report/98.pdf). “Lutsenko begged Kolesnikov to forget, Minister Mykola Azarov. “I’m not sure Brussels to take center stage. (The prob- Little wonder then, that President that it was all a misunderstanding. But they’d be terribly concerned if he died. lem is, as seen during the Libyan crisis, Obama has a Russia-first policy in the these guys don’t forget things like that.” These are people who allegedly took part that the EU is adrift without U.S. leader- face of Ukraine’s disinterest in NATO The former police chief – who led in drive-by shootings.” ship.) What Kyiv fails to understand is membership or deep cooperation with it, that it is far more difficult to join the EU coupled with Kyiv’s constant vacillation than NATO and that only the latter is on and attempts at deception. Alone, Svoboda can be neutralized by offer to Ukraine. The EU has never The Yanukovych administration’s rela- the PRU, which controls the Parliament, offered Ukraine membership prospects, tions with the West are reminiscent of the Opposition... at any time through raising the threshold and that is unlikely to change in the fore- lack of respect it has cultivated towards (Continued from page 2) for a party’s election to Parliament from seeable future because Ukraine is too big Ukrainian voters. In both cases it believes the current 3 percent to 5 percent or and too poor, while the EU is too they can be hoodwinked and deceived told his supporters during a recent region- more, which Svoboda will not overcome. engulfed by constitutional and economic into believing a virtual reality that is at al trip. However, Mr. Tiahnybok clearly President Viktor Yanukovych indicated crises. odds with developments in Ukraine. What sees Svoboda as the dominant force in the possibility of raising the threshold in EU-Ukraine relations therefore resem- the Yanukovych administration will find any opposition alliance (Ukrayinska his recent address to the nation ble the old Communist slogan of “You is that Ukrainian voters on the one hand, Pravda, April 18). In any case, the YTB (Ukrayinska Pravda, April 7). pretend to pay us, and we pretend to and Western governments and interna- or Mr. Yatsenyuk will hardly join forces work,” except this has now become “The tional organizations on the other are more with Svoboda since their xenophobic slo- The article above is reprinted from EU pretends to give us future member- mature than they think, and cannot be gans are viewed by many as ideological Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission ship, and we pretend to do reforms and sucked into this virtual reality. As the allies to nazism. An alliance with from its publisher, the Jamestown undertake democratization.” British rock band The Who once famous- Svoboda on the national scale would only Foundation, www.jamestown.org. After dropping the goal of NATO ly sang, they “Won’t be fooled again.” discredit mainstream parties. No.21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 23 OUT AND ABOUT

Through June 19 Photo exhibit, “Through Ukrainian Eyes,” featuring works June 3-July 9 Art exhibit, “Uncommon Ground,” featuring works by Pat New York by Evgen Kovtonyuk, Ukrainian Institute of America, Ponte Vedra, FL Zalisko, Cultural Center of Ponte Vedra, 904-280-0614 212-288-8660 or www.pkzart.com

Through October 30 Art exhibit, “The Worlds of Sviatoslav Hordynsky,” June 4 Kozak Tournament, Yonkers Branch of the Ukrainian New York The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110 Yonkers, NY American Youth Association, Ukrainian Youth Center, 914-476-6781 May 25 Lecture by Halyna Mokrushyna, “Ukrainian Sentiments Ottawa and Canadian Sustinance: Telling the Story of the June 4 Mother’s Day and Father’s Day dinner and dance, St. Holodomor,” St. Paul University, 613-596-8188 New Haven, CT Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church hall, 203-865-0388 or [email protected] May 27-30 29th convention, Ukrainian National Women’s League of Whippany, NJ America, hosted by the New Jersey Regional Council, June 5 Meeting, League of Ukrainian Catholics – North Marriott Hotel, 973-376-4829 or 201-438-1262 Scranton, PA Anthracite Council, St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church parish center, 570-822-5354 May 28 Charivni Ochi dance, featuring music by Klooch, Bayda, Mississauga, ON Skora and DJ Oh.Ball, Anapilis Hall, 519-546-8080 or June 5 Presentation by Marian J. Rubchak, “Mapping Difference. www.ticketpicket.com/charivniochi New York The Many Faces of Women in Ukraine,” Shevchenko Scientific Society, 212-254-5130 May 28-30 Great Lakes Cup soccer tournament, hosted by Connection June 5 90th anniversary dinner and dance, Ukrainian Club of Plano, IL Soccer Club of Chicago, Polish National Alliance Youth Southport, CT Southport, www.theukrclub.com or 203-434-5489 Camp, 773-299-8833

June 7 Book launch, “Re-Imagining Ukrainian Canadians: May 29 Memorial Day picnic, New Kuban Free Cossack Ottawa History, Politics and Identity, Essays by Young Ukrainian Buena, NJ Community, Cossack Heritage Museum, 856-697-2255 Canadian Historians in honor of Archivist Myron Momryk,” Library and Archives of Canada, 613-996-5115 May 29 Picnic, for members and prospective members, Ukrainian Lehighton, PA Homestead, 610-377-4621 or www.ukrhomestead.com June 9 Benefit concert for victims of Chornobyl and the New York Fukushima nuclear disasters, Ukrainian Institute of May 30 Memorial Day commemoration, Ukrainian American America, 212-288-8660 North Port, FL Veterans – Post 40, Veterans Memorial Park, 941-492-4860 June 11 50th anniversary of the Ukrainian Future Credit Union, Warren, MI featuring the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus, Ukrainian May 31 Lecture by Alexander Motyl, “Ukraine After One Year Cultural Center, 586-757-8130 or Washington of Yanukovych,” Woodrow Wilson International Center www.ukrainianculturalcenter.com for Scholars, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 202-691-4000 Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events May 31 Book presentation, “The Jew Who Was Ukrainian” by advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions Washington Alexander Motyl, The Washington Group, from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors [email protected] and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected]. UNA SENIORS AND FRIENDS Summer is approaching. It’s time to make reservations for Seniors Week at Soyuzivka! Sunday, June 12 - Friday, June 17, 2011 Registration begins Sunday at 4:00 pm at the SOYUZIVKA Heritage Center!

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UNA Members – SINGLE OCCUPANCY $ 475 - DOUBLE $ 405 pp. UNA Members – 1 night $ 120 - DOUBLE $ 97 pp. Non UNA Members – SINGLE OCCUPANCY $ 525 - DOUBLE $ 420 pp. Non UNA Members – 1 night $ 125 - DOUBLE $ 105 pp. BANQUET & ENTERTAINMENT ONLY, Thursday, June 16, $35 pp. Call SOYUZIVKA and register early, Tel: 845 626-5641 For more information call Oksana Trytjak, Tel: 973 292-9800 x 3071

SENIORS WEEK IS FUN – AFFORDABLE – AND INTERESTING. BRING YOUR FRIENDS. WE WELCOME NEW GUESTS! We encourage you to come and enjoy a wonderful, relaxed week in a setting familiar to us all with much to do – or not. We promise you a fun time! Call early and reserve a room. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011 No. 21

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Saturday, June 4 Motyl; and a reception by UNWLA Branch 113. On Sunday, there will be a pre-record- CHICAGO: The Chicago Ukrainian ed intro and comments by filmmakers. The School “Ridna Shkola” and the Class of Ukrainian Museum, is located at 222 E. 2011 Parent Committee invite the Sixth St., (between Second and Third ave- Ukrainian community to the “Vypusknyi nues); telephone, 212-228-0110. Seating is Vechir Zabava” (graduation dance) honor- limited; order tickets online at www.ukrai- ing this year’s graduating class, which will nianmuseum.org. be held at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, 2247 W. Chicago Ave. The dance begins at Saturday, June 11 8 p.m. and will feature the band Klopit. PALATINE, Ill.: Ukrainian American Admission is $20. For more information Veterans 1st Lt. Ivan Shandor Post 35, refer to www.ridnachicago.org. ACT for America and the Veteran Saturday-Sunday, June 4-5 Defenders of America invite members of the community, veterans and patriots to a NEW YORK: Three Stories of Galicia showing of a documentary “Sacrificed (2010, English/Ukrainian /Russian/Polish, Survivors,” the untold story of the Ground with English subtitles, 86 minutes.) will be Zero mega-mosque. The documentary screened at The Ukrainian Museum on shows new footage of the radical leader of Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. the mosque, Imam Rauf, leading services in what is the New York City premiere of inside the mosque building and explains the documentary by Olha Onyshko and the true radical agenda of those behind the Sarah Farhat. Trapped between Hitler and mosque. The meeting takes place at the Stalin, three people in Galicia had the Palatine Library, 700 N. North Court, courage to risk everything and do what was Palatine, IL 60067, at 2-4 p.m. There is no right. Admission: $15 adults, $10 members charge for the event. For more information and seniors, $5 students. On Saturday there contact the post commander, Col. Roman will be: an opportunity to meet the film- G. Golash (ret.), romangolash@sbcglobal. makers; an introduction by Prof. Alexander net, or call 847-910-3532. PREVIEW OF EVENTS GUIDELINES Preview of Events is a listing of community events open to the public. It is a service provided at minimal cost ($20 per listing) by The Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrainian community. Items should be no more than 100 words long.

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